Transmission Project - data

Member's Survey

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:08:08 +0000

A Member’s Survey form created by corps member Sam Kaplan.

“The results (of the survey) will help us (Access Humboldt) determine the following: A) how to improve our courses, equipment rentals, production services, and available software; B) what other courses, equipment rentals, production services, and software to offer to members.”

Outreach Documentation Blog

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:56:12 +0000

Corps member Goda Trakumaite describes her Outreach Documentation Blog: “I keep a detailed record of every outreach event I do on this password protected blog accessible to the whole office. Along with some photos documenting the event and a reflection of how it went, who attended, what worked and what did not work, I upload all materials that were either used for or produced during the event. That way anyone can replicate a particular presentation while also making the changes that I might suggest making in the reflections. Despite what that bar on the right says, there are in fact categories - I separate all the posts according to what kind of events they were (screening, classroom visit, etc.). The goals of the blog are to keep track of boring but important stuff like numbers, to have a place to critically think about what happened and how I can better do what I’m doing, and to leave a record for anyone who attempts this job in the future so that their efforts don’t have to begin from scratch.”

Screenshot of blog attached.

Digital Story Archiving

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:30:07 +0000

Research and Technology VISTA

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:37:48 +0000

Website Design and Analysis

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:57:44 +0000

Pangea Foundation

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:26:56 +0000

Healthy City/Advancement Project

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:03:51 +0000

2009 Constituent Data

Mira Allen — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:32:08 +0000

A document detailing 2009 constituent data. Prepared by corps member Bill Brown.

FutureEverything 2010 Conference

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:05:29 +0000

We are excited to introduce the FutureEverything conference programme for 2010, our best and most ambitious yet. We are delighted to present the world’s best speakers under our conference themes of ImagineEverything, Unlimited Connectivity, Open Data and The City Experiment.

The FutureEverything conference will take you on a journey through the most cutting-edge developments in a range of exciting fields. Join us to hear about why governments should open up the data that they hold, and what we can do with this information to change our lives. Listen to leading artists and scientists discuss what we can dream and do with unlimited bandwidth. Visionary speakers will illuminate the science of the web, the ways the networked city is being rewired, how poetry can be encoded into DNA, ways we can play the city like an instrument, and how relationships between generations are going to change over the next hundred years.

The date of the inaugural FutureEverything festival is 12-15 May 2010, obtain your festival passes now here: http://futureeverything.org/tickets

BTOP Data and News

Ben Sheldon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:19:07 +0000

We’ve been fervently tracking the BTOP (Broadband Technology Opportunity Program) awards process: 1st round winners are slowly dribbling out while the 2nd round application deadline looms a month away.

In addition to the application spreadsheets we’ve been updating, we’ve reached beyond what’s in the database to directly collect data from applications. A survey went out yesterday to 1100+ applicants who have either had their first round application turned down for funding or are still awaiting a decision. In collaboration with the New America Foundation, we developed a quick set of questions to track what feedback applicants can expect, and develop a deeper understanding of what applicants submitted beyond what’s currently publicly available. Because of fast approaching deadlines, the report will be available in 2 weeks.

Fortunately, some journalists are also digging into the granting process. Here are a few recently published articles:

Tough Choices for Feds Giving out Broadband Money: With 2,200 broadband applications, competition for billions in stimulus dollars is intense - by Joelle Tessler
Fiber Optics, Not Magic Beans: Rural Idaho hopes to liberate broadband through stimulus - by Gavin Dahl

Asked why Qwest sat out the first round, several sources suggested the nation’s most powerful companies won’t take any money that forces them to sign the government’s nondiscrimination policy–the rules state that grantees “not favor any lawful Internet applications and content over others.”

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According to a loud chorus of applicants, Rep. Walt Minnick’s office took the lead in helping the Idaho dozen prepare applications.

“Although Walt voted against the stimulus bill, he recognized once it did pass, it was his job to get as much money for Idaho as possible,” Minnick spokesman John Foster said.
Mapping out the Jedi Mind Trick - by Gavin Dahl

[Hannah Miller], the activist [national field director of the Media and Democracy Coalition], hopes the stimulus delivers funds to projects that improve rural access to affordable high-speed Internet. “There’s a different moral weight to these phone and cable companies than if they had, say, a peanut brittle monopoly. This is about access to information.”

“Our role is to try to encourage as many community partners to get involved as possible. Community involvement is what makes or breaks this thing. You’re asking folks to participate in something a great deal of people are intimidated by.”
$7.2 Billion For Broadband Is Largely Unallocated - by Joel Rose (via Todd Wolfson at the Media Mobilizing Project)

“They aren’t leading, they aren’t following, and they won’t get out of the way,” says Craig Settles, author of Fighting The Next Good Fight, a book about broadband business strategy. He says the nation’s biggest telecom companies have generally decided not to apply for federal stimulus money.

“They’re not going to put proposals on the table because they don’t like the rules,” Settles says. “Yet they’re not going to cooperate with the entities that are going after the money.”
More Legislators Question Idaho Education Network - by Sharon Fisher (via Gavin Dahl)