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BEAD Broadband Grants for Rural Communities: What Local Governments Should Know 2023 | GovPilot

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If your government is operating from a rural location, there’s a serious chance that you internet and internet infrastructure is far from modernized. According to the USDA, 22% of rural areas (and 27% of tribal lands) continue to lack modern broadband service.

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Highlights from the State of the Cities Report 2023 by NLC

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What is surprising, though, is the low ranking of broadband and public transit within the infrastructure category. This leads me to question if the current federal government’s emphasis on broadband connectivity is warranted. Not surprisingly, infrastructure ranked as the number 1 priority for mayors nationwide.

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How the City of Canton worked with Wi-Fiber to build a safer and more connected community

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The city worked with government technology (GovTech) company Wi-Fiber, a network infrastructure provider using AWS Direct Connect from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more about how state and local governments use AWS to power justice and public safety solutions at the AWS Cloud for Justice and Public Safety hub.

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AWS and Project Kuiper to support the US military’s Hybrid Space Architecture project

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As the DoD looks for ways to enable greater connectivity and information sharing, it’s increasingly exploring ways to bolster government capabilities to improve latency, scalability, and communications resiliency. government (USG) space assets in all orbits to provide secure, assured, and low-latency data communications.

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Addressing the top 10 priorities of state CIOs with AWS

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In this blog post, explore these top 10 priorities and how state and local leaders can use AWS to support them. Digital government and services Digital government and modernized service delivery remain the second highest priority for state technology leaders in the 2023 report. million residents.

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To Win Federal Grants, Have a Community Engagement Strategy: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Conference of Mayors?

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ARPA funds and other funding programs are interested in knowing that your programs are both necessary and that they will be successful—this is why the federal government is encouraging all grantees to create a community engagement process around ARPA. Grants for local government. Start your community engagement process NOW.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

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Fraser is committed to democratizing technology and driving forward projects that expand broadband and make city services easier to use for all. Fraser is a native New Yorker with over 17 years of experience across government and the private sector. Fraser, CTO, New York City. As CTO of New York City, Matthew C.