ZD grantee Access Humboldt awarded “Community Broadband Wireless Network of the Year”

Courtesy of ZFellow Sean McLaughlin and the Eureka Times-Standard:

Access Humboldt was represented in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday to receive the “Community Broadband Wireless Network of the Year” Award for the Digital Redwoods initiative and to promote “A Public Interest Internet Agenda.”

The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) annually presents Community Broadband Awards to exceptional leaders and innovative programs that champion community interests and broadband deployment in local communities nationwide.

”NATOA's Community Broadband Awards proudly recognize the people, communities, and organizations that lead the nation in promoting community interests through broadband projects,” said Mary Beth Henry, president of the NATOA Board of Directors.

Digital Redwoods (http://digitalredwoods.net) is a regional initiative of Access Humboldt that includes local broadband network projects such as Digital Rio Dell, Access Humboldt Libraries and Eureka Muni-Hub. Digital Redwoods is developing these sustainable municipal and community projects to deliver broadband and digital media services to remote and rural communities on the North Coast of California.

Digital Redwoods also includes a Broadband Policy Project, funded in part by ZeroDivide (zerodivide.org), which helps to support Access Humboldt's participation in national, state and local policy efforts such as “A Public Interest Internet Agenda,” which was released nationally on One Web Day (Sept. 22) in Washington, D.C.

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