The New Hampshire Municipal Association is collaborating with the National Collaborative for the Digital Economy (NCDE) on a broadband project to map and promote Wi-Fi for rural towns across the state using public buildings.
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses have benefitted from broadband expansion through ARPA, BEAD, and IIJA investments of close to $318 million.
- Is your rural municipality interested in exploring how to best take advantage of additional funding aimed at helping your LMI populations of all ages understand how to get access to government services, health care resources, and affordable broadband and devices?
- Does your small municipality and business districts have dead zones that if enabled, could allow for better communication in support of education and economic opportunity, with healthy outcomes in healthy communities?
- Do you have Wi-Fi in your Town Halls, and Libraries?
- If you do have Wi-Fi in your public buildings, is it secure from hackers for users of the public network?
- Is your Wi-Fi equipment old and outdated?
NCDE is looking for a minimum of 10 rural municipalities (1 per County) to launch an innovative broadband program that provides upgrades of equipment, access to devices, affordable broadband, Cyber Security strategies and a tech support team in each participating community utilizing supervised high school students.
Questions should be directed by email to Carol Miller cmiller@digitalequity.us today to get in on the planning stages and find out about what the program can do for your community.