PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Extension’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide has won a five-year, $12 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help rebuild higher education in war-torn Afghanistan. Maria Beebe, director of CBDD’s global initiatives, began working with USAID in April 2005 on the Afghan eQuality Alliances project. […]
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Using community technology to reduce the digital, economic, social and cultural divides among Washingtonians will be the topic of a day-long summit held in Ellensburg, Wednesday, Oct. 19. The session is the first statewide meeting of the Communities Connect initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by Washington […]
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — The public is invited to join the festivities at the groundbreaking for the new agricultural research and technology facilities at Washington State University’s Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center. The groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Wednesday, June 1, at 10:30 am on the grounds of the NWREC, 16656 […]
SEATTLE, Wash. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that Washington State University Extension’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide will now administer its Community Access to Technology program. Transfer of the program will provide long-term sustainability for community technology initiatives in Washington and create a statewide network of community technology organizations. The […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The death of Terry Schiavo highlights the growing disconnect between the medical technology we’ve developed and our ability to know when to use it, according to a Washington State University professor. “We’ve been a ‘death denying’ society for many years,” according to Margaret Young, a former registered nurse who now is a […]
SPOKANE — Congressman George R. Nethercutt Jr. will cut the ribbon Monday (April 21) for the Spokane office of Washington State University’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide. The public is invited to attend, at 120 N. Stevens, Suite 200. The ribbon cutting will be at 4 p.m. A reception will follow until 6 p.m. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A University of Washington and Washington State University program that helps rural communities gain access to the latest technology and training for woodlands management has received a national award for private-forestry education. The Rural Technology Initiative was launched two years ago by the UW’s College of Forest Resources and WSU’s natural resource […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Business, health care, education and civic leaders will learn about resources available to help their business or organization explore beneficial applications of computers, the Internet and telecommunications by attending a satellite broadcast sponsored by the Washington State University Center to Bridge the Digital Divide. On April 4, an innovative rural business owner, […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Mike Lubliner lives in one of the most energy-efficient manufactured homes in the United States. That’s only appropriate because Lubliner makes his living preaching residential energy conservation for Washington State University’s Cooperative Extension Energy Program.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University is one of six institutions receiving National Science Foundation funds to help develop and deploy advanced services and technologies via satellite to improve Internet services to low-income, rural and inner-city Americans. The term, “digital divide” often is used to describe the Internet access gap between low- and higher-income Americans, […]