Broadband

Libraries and museums are using broadband to expand access to content and create communities where all people have the ability to access and use information technologies.

Building Digital Communities logoNational Initiative: Building Digital Communities 
Full participation in American society requires the ability to access and use digital content and technologies. Libraries, businesses, hospitals, schools, cultural institutions, community technology centers and local governments face difficult decisions about how to create and sustain access to broadband technologies.

Search the Awarded Grants database for grants to broadband programs (issue areas have only been assigned to grants awarded since FY 2009)

Broadband content on the IMLS Web site:
Everyone On
Blog Post: Everyone On! Libraries Play Essential Role in Connect2Compete Campaign

March 21, 2013 10:51 AM
A public awareness campaign launches today that will help empower people who aren’t Internet users, to get the training they need to get online. Read More

 
IMLS Director and partners meet at HUD
Blog Post: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Best Buy Announce Connect 2 Compete Partnership

February 15, 2013 03:44 PM
Launch of digital literacy training initiative will reach residents of public housing. Read More

 
Connect2Compete: Lee Davenport,Howard Feldstein, Hilda Solis, Julius Genachowski, Susan Hildreth
Blog Post: Public Libraries, American Job Centers, and Digital Literacy

July 18, 2012 10:36 AM
Together America’s Public Libraries and America’s Job Centers are teaching digital skills that are essential for job searches and more. Read More

 
Blog Post: “US Ignite” Highlights Library and Museum Potential for High-Speed Broadband Applications

June 20, 2012 08:47 AM
President Obama Announces an initiative to make cities and towns test-beds for next-generation applications. Read More