Broadband Resources

Virginia Resources

Center for Innovative Technology
www.cit.org
CIT programs help communities build sound strategies for the deployment of broadband solutions

Department of Housing and Community Development http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/CommunityDevelopmentRevitalization/Telecommunications.htm
DHCD’s Virginia Rural Broadband Planning Initiative is a comprehensive telecommunications planning effort that will allow communities to identify and develop all elements necessary to create a successful community broadband network. Funds are distributed to eligible communities on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Virginia Tobacco Commission, Technology Committee www.vatobaccocommission.org
The Technology program funds projects that bring affordable open access, high speed connectivity to economic development sites in the tobacco region.

Virginia Resources Authority
http://www.virginiaresources.org/
Virginia Resources Authority tailors low-cost financing solutions that take advantage of our unique capabilities to issue bonds backed by the moral obligation of the Commonwealth and to make revolving fund loans at below-market interest rates. Our mission encompasses financing infrastructure in the areas of environmental quality, public health, wireless broadband telecommunications, ransportation, economic development, brownfields remediation, and public safety.

Virginia Tech – eCorridors
http://www.ecorridors.vt.edu/
eCorridors creates competitive advantage by facilitating the deployment of advanced technology infrastructure and applications leveraging inter-regional connectivity for, and collaboration among, communities.

Appalachian Regional Commission
http://www.arc.gov/index.jsp
The Appalachian Regional Commission is a federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.

Virginia Telehealth Resource Center http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/vatelehealth/
Hosted by the University of Virginia Health System, the virtual resource center is designed to foster the use of telehealth and other e-health technologies to improve the health of the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Joint Commission on Technology and Science Wireless Broadband Advisory Committee
http://www.jcots.state.va.us/2007%20Content/broadband.htm

Other Resources

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/broadband/

USDA-Rural Development
http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/index.htm
USDA Rural Development provides many programs for financing rural America’s telecommunications infrastructure.

USAC (Universal Service Funds)
http://www.usac.org/default.aspx
The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) is an independent, not-for-profit corporation designated as the administrator of the federal Universal Service Fund by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). USAC administers Universal Service Fund (USF) programs for high cost companies serving rural areas, low-income consumers, rural health care providers, and schools and libraries. The Universal Service Fund helps provide communities across the country with affordable telecommunications services.

National Conference of State Legislatures 
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/ConnectAmericaPubs.htm
Connecting America Broadband Policy Issues and Options for State Legislatures

Connected Nation
http://www.connectednation.com/
Connected Nation, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that makes technology work for communities and markets. As a public-private partnership, Connected Nation works with the supply and demand realities in a manner that respects communities and gets results.