US Ignite has awarded grants to seven communities under Project OVERCOME, a $2.7 million effort designed to bring broadband to unconnected communities via novel solutions. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) conceived of the initiative and is providing $2.25 million…
US Ignite and Charter’s Spectrum Smart Cities unit are working with Ohio-based entities to bring smart transportation to the state. The two organizations have awarded a multi-year grant and are providing resources to the state to design and implement smart…
Project OVERCOME, a new initiative from US Ignite will use a $1.945 million National Science Foundation grant to fund and build out five proof-of-concept projects aimed at accelerating the delivery of broadband services to unserved and underserved communities. Non-profit US…
US Ignite and ATIS said today that they have completed phase one of the Smart Cities Data Exchange framework. The project working group has defined its area of focus and created an implementation plan aimed at improving methods for exchanging…
US Ignite and Charter’s broadband unit Spectrum have selected St. Petersburg, FL, as a Smart Gigabit Community. The St. Petersburg Innovation District, under a three-year grant from Spectrum, will act as the convening partner. The US Ignite, Spectrum announcement marks…
Cox Communications and US Ignite today designated Las Vegas as the newest US Ignite Smart Gigabit Community (SGC). US Ignite’s SGC program is creating “living lab” environments for the next generation of gigabit applications. Las Vegas is the 25th community…
U.S. Ignite, the public-private partnership behind the nationwide Smart Gigabit Communities program, is taking a novel approach in a bid to spur development of next-generation Internet and Smart City technologies. Working with local partner organizations, the organization is sponsoring a…
Three U.S. and one Australian city joined the US Ignite Smart Gigabit Communities Program, the federal public-private non-profit partnership announced Sept. 26. Adelaide, Australia became Smart Gigabit Communities’ first international partner, joining Albuquerque, New Mexico; Salisbury, North Carolina; and Washington,…
Fifteen communities have joined together as part of a US Ignite Smart Gigabit Communities initiative. The goal is to create a national network of Smart Gigabit Communities that will leverage next-generation Internet and Smart City technologies to keep pace with…
The National Science Foundation aims to award as much as $10 million in grant funding toward US Ignite gigabit R&D. Funded projects will carry out fundamental research to advance gigabit network protocols and infrastructure and/or develop new applications and prototypes…
“Catalyzing” new applications relying on high-speed broadband is the focus of US Ignite, a new public/ private partnership launched at an event at the White House today. The non-profit organization’s goal is to identify “60 transformative applications in 200 communities…
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