KACN and Partners Support Initiatives to Expand Broadband Internet Access Throughout Alaska

In the Internet Age, the ability to research, investigate and communicate has a direct effect on one’s ability to learn, work, compete, communicate, organize, and prosper.

Unfortunately, there is a huge disparity in Alaskan’s ability access to information and opportunity through the Internet. Recent studies claim 77% of Alaskan enjoy broadband (high-speed) Internet access. What isn’t mentioned is how entire communities in Alaska still have no Internet access, or access with speeds as much as 1,000 times slower than what is typically enjoyed in urban environments like Anchorage. This greatly impedes these rural Alaskan’s opportunities

You can help us bridge this gap in Alaska by taking five minutes to participate in the 2011 . Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) Survey on Alaska Internet Access.

Click on the following ling to take this Survey on Alaska Internet Access: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KACNTV

This survey is sponsored by the University of Alaska Sustainable Broadband Adoption project. Together with over 30 partner organizations and agencies, we are interested in learning more about your experience in connecting to and using the Internet.The information you provide will be combined with responses from others in your community and region to create a picture of broadband Internet access and use across Alaska. All of the responses you provide are anonymous and cannot be used to identify you personally.Thank you for your sincere interest in improving access to broadband technology in Alaska. We appreciate your time to complete the survey!

Bridging the E-Skills Gap — KACN Television Partner Website Links

This project to Bridge the e-Skills Gap in Alaska is an innovative proposal by a powerful multi-sector group of partners from the education, health care, early childhood, social services, government, and public safety sectors to create a strategic coordinated framework to promote technology literacy and training to vulnerable and hard to reach populations in rural Alaska. The activities proposed here represent a systemic and coordinated approach to broadband adoption for Alaska. The project activities will lead to sustainable adoption of publicly available broadband content by a wide spectrum of end-users across Alaska and increased use of technology best practices by the project partners.

Project site: http://www.akdec.net

Alaska Injury Prevention Center: http://www.alaska-ipc.org/

Alaska Library Network and Digital Pipeline: http://sled.alaska.edu/databases/home.html

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: http://www.anthctoday.org/

Alaska Post Secondary Commission: http://akadvantage.alaska.gov/

Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association: http://www.ashnha.com/site/

Alaska State Tech Prep: http://www.alaska.edu/techprep/index.xml

Alaska Teacher Placement: http://www.alaskateacher.org/~atp0alas/doku.php/atp_home

Alaska Vocational Technical Institute: http://www.avtec.edu/

Alaska Workforce Investment Board: http://labor.alaska.gov/awib/

Barrow Arctic Science Consortium: http://www.arcticscience.org/

Best Beginnings: http://www.bestbeginningsalaska.org/