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News Release 15-107
Gigabit application prototypes to help cities and communities serve citizens better
NSF awards nearly $12 million to expand innovation ecosystem for next-generation Internet applications
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NSF announced nearly $12 million for US Ignite awards that build on successful efforts from the initial years of the initiative. The 11 new awards expand the US Ignite initiative to new cities and regions; support novel application prototypes in areas of national and societal importance such as healthcare, energy, and education and learning; and advance the goal of creating connected, digitally-empowered communities.
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These two young Chattanoogans were among the more than 2,200 who came to Chattanooga's first Mini Maker Faire to experiment with Gigabit Community Fund projects and dozens of other hands-on making activities enabled by the US Ignite program.
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Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is actively exploring and developing new technologies for telemedicine. At the US Ignite application summit in July 2014, the researchers demonstrated new technology for creating heightened virtual healthcare experience using SightDeck for interactive collaboration with video, voice and graphics.
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At MozFest, more than 1,600 festival attendees from all over the world learned about gigabit networks and their impact in Kansas City and Chattanooga as they built their own ethernet cables with Gigabit Fund partner, The Enterprise Center, and musically collaborated in real-time with Gigabit Fund project, Adagio.
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