by TIPI Staff | Sep 26, 2019
Based on our work with libraries in in other parts of the country (see: NYPL Hotspot Assessment and IMLS Rural Hotspots), we wanted to partner with Texas libraries in to pilot hotspot programs. We believe libraries, as anchor institutions, have an outsize role to play...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 29, 2019
STROVER, SHARON, PI; BRIAN WHITACRE, COLIN RHINESMOTH, CO-PI; ALEXIS SCHRUBBE AND GERMAN ALVAREZ, RESEARCHERS Supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, Grant #31-16-0014-16 Introduction The Technology & Information Policy Institute at the...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
Sharon Strover, Martin J. Riedl and Selena Dickey submitted a paper to TPRC47: Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. The paper is an outgrowth of the TIPI’s Facebook Community Networks project. The team will present on Friday,...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
A team of researchers under the supervision of professors Joseph Straubhaar and Sharon Strover conducted the Austin Digital Assessment Survey for the City of Austin to assess internet usage in Austin. The team sent 11,000 surveys to random Austin addresses and...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 5, 2019
Abstract: A great deal of scholarship on broadband deployment and federal policies has positioned rural America through a deficit framework: rural parts of the country have older populations (and therefore not tech savvy), are poor (and therefore justifiably ignored...
by TIPI Staff | Jun 18, 2019
In support of closing the rural connectivity gap in Texas, Glasshouse Policy partnered with AARP, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), and the University of Texas Technology and Information Policy Institute to host a series of town halls and...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 18, 2018
The term ‘broadband’ refers to an advanced telecommunication service that developed from a need for greater amounts of information to be transmitted across the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defines broadband in terms of speed. The...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 30, 2018
Policy Briefs Children and the Internet: Parental Concerns and Internet Site DataDr. Sharon Strover, Ellen Wartella, Pat Stout, & Jef RichardsDownload Libraries in a Networked TexasDr. Philip DotyDownload Rural Implications of H.R. 1542: The Internet Freedom and...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 11, 2018
Past Presentations: National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals(NACDEP) Annual Conference; Big Sky, Montana; June 11-14, 2017. http://www.nacdep.net/2017-cds-nacdep-conference “Rural Library Hotspot Lending...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 13, 2017
Research in the Press: Rural Hotspots “How to Hot Spot” by Christina Vercelleto hosted on the Tech Knowledge blog on the Website, Library Journal: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/09/lj-in-print/hot-spot-techknowledge/#_ D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of...
