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Broadband
Blandin Foundation stands with Minnesota’s rural leaders and communities as they create and claim futures that are resilient, vibrant and connected.
Broadband connects rural communities to the world and is essential infrastructure for the future. Rural people and places need high-speed Internet, and the skills to use it, to create new jobs, access modern education and healthcare services, and stay connected to others.
Since 2003, the Blandin Community Broadband Program (BCBP) has worked with rural communities across Minnesota to improve broadband access, adoption and use. Guided by the vision, “Everyone in Minnesota will be able to use convenient, affordable world-class broadband networks that enable us to survive and thrive in our communities and across the globe,” the BCBP program engaged leaders at local, state and federal levels to ignite and sustain policies that support rural access to robust broadband.
Learn More About Our Work in Broadband
Research and reports, past broadband conference materials, tools you can use and success stories.
Blandin Broadband Communities Program
Arrowhead Intelligent Region
From the Blandin on Broadband Blog
MN House looks at cutting HF4182: Equal Access to Broadband Act
Apr 16
The Minnesota Reformer reports… The Minnesota House’s Democratic majority is expected to ax a proposal Monday that would have allowed cities to charge broadband providers a fee to place internet lines in their jurisdictions. If they chose to enact the … Continue reading
MN Seante hears SF5366: fund transfers in broadband budget
Apr 16
Yesterday the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Broadband, and Rural Development discussed SF5366 – Putnam: Broadband supplemental appropriations and transfers Governor’s supplemental broadband budget. (I have written about this bill before and have been following the House version HF5231.) They deciced to lay the … Continue reading
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