The Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative (CABI) Task Force...
The Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative (CABI) Task Force received more funding from Intel and Chesapeake Energy to connect 7,500 customers to computers over the next year, Connect Ohio Executive Director Stu Johnson told us. Chesapeake Energy needs to use broadband…
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for oil and gas exploration in Appalachia, which makes it a “perfect fit” for the project, said Johnson. Intel is providing computers and digital literacy training, said Johnson. CABI is giving households access to the Internet in an area where one in three households currently use it, and the program is already seeing success with 20,000 households connected in 2012, he said. “The CABI fund is to purchase computers and provide training for low-income Appalachian Ohioans,” said Johnson. “We are working with state agencies to identify those folks as well as community action organizations.”