West Virginia participants in Frontier’s Lifeline Broadband Pilot...
West Virginia participants in Frontier’s Lifeline Broadband Pilot program, who opt to partake in digital literacy training, will be directed to Future Generations, Frontier told FCC officials in a letter Monday (http://bit.ly/11npJCq). Frontier has decided to use Future Generations, a…
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“prominent digital literacy proponent” in West Virginia, rather than Mission West Virginia, which Frontier had identified as its digital literacy partner on its pilot program application. “Future Generations is a non-profit organization that leverages its connections to provide digital literacy training in firehouses that have been made into community centers throughout the State,” Frontier said. Future Generations is also a grantee of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program for its digital literacy program, Frontier said. “A partnership with Future Generations is completely consistent with the Commission’s program goals,” Frontier said, expecting the new partner to be a “valuable” addition to the pilot program. A Frontier spokeswoman told us that the company has worked with Future Generations on past projects, and using them now was “a natural continuation of our partnership."