National Telecommunications and Information Administration Broadband Technology Opportunities ProgramnEvaluation Study. Case Study Report Round 2 Future Generations Graduate School Sustainable Broadband Adoption.

摘要

Future Generations Graduate School was founded in 2003 as an outgrowth of the international civil society organization Future Generations. Future Generations Graduate School specializes in community-based approaches to major social challenges and successfully manages complex international and educational programs that rely on broadband. Future Generations Graduate School offers a master's degree in Applied Community Change and Conservation; supports multi-year research initiatives into community-based approaches to conservation, child health, and peace-building; and, along with its parent organization, manages large-scale community capacity building projects in complex international settings. On January 1, 2010, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) awarded Future Generations Graduate School a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) Sustainable Broadband Adoption (SBA) grant for $4,461,874 to implement the Equipping West Virginia’s Fire and Rescue Squads project. The goal of this project was to make computers and the Internet more accessible and useful to West Virginians in low-income and rural communities. Future Generations Graduate School proposed the following, with the results shown: Provide sixty participating local fire departments standardized equipment to establish a community computer lab.1 Future Generations Graduate School had opened sixty public computer centers (PCC) in volunteer fire station and rescue squad facilities and other community centers by September 2012.2 Establish community-based training programs in basic