New Tool for Broadband Recovery Opportunities
On January 7, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) unveiled BroadbandMatch, a new online tool intended to facilitate partnerships among prospective applicants to the two agencies’ broadband grant and loan programs under the Recovery Act. The Department of Commerce’s press release is available here:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/BBMatch_20100107.html
BroadbandMatch – at http://match.broadbandusa.gov – will enable potential Recovery Act funding applicants to find partners for proposals for broadband projects. This match program will allow a company, nonprofit, state or local government or expert individual interested in applying for funding under NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) or RUS’s Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) to post a profile, including key information about the contribution they can make to a broadband project, as well as search for other stakeholders whose skills and resources match their needs.
