Broadband stimulus hits a milestone | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

We are at the beginning of the next phase of the broadband stimulus process, which is a good time to remember just what the money is intended to do.

Vice President Joe Biden was set to visit Seneca High School in Erie, Penn., to announce that guidelines -- in the form of government document called the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) -- are available. Other luminaries, including new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the secretaries of commerce and agriculture, also will make the trip. In short, the philosophical debates are ending and the actual awards are set to start. InformationWeek blogger Michael Higgins takes a look at what this really means...