The Initiative's Role in Rural Broadband Adoption Featured in Choices

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues releases a themed issue, with Guest Editor James Barnes, focusing on broadband expansion into rural areas. Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the United States will spend almost $12 billion dollars to develop infrastructure and provide education to encourage rural adoption of high-speed Internet or broadband. But will rural America finally get connected? Many National e-Commerce Extension Initiative contributors and colleagues collaborated on this rural broadband themed edition that discusses the potential role of land-grant university faculty.

Articles:

• Theme Overview: Bringing Broadband to Rural America
• Strengthening Rural America's Position in the Global Broadband Adoption Race
• American Policy and the Evolving Broadband Internet Network
• The Struggle for Broadband in Rural America
• National e-Commerce Extension Initiative for Rural Entrepreneurs
• Rural Broadband Availability and Adoption in Oklahoma

You can read these articles and more over at Choice: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues.