Improve Broadband Access? There's an App For That | Telecompetitor

The FCC and the Knight Foundation have partnered in launching a social-purpose ‘Apps for Inclusion‘ competition in support of the National Broadband Plan goal of expanding broadband access to 90% of U.S. households by 2020.

“Recent years have seen an explosion in content creation for handheld and desktop devices,” writes the FCC’s director of Omnibus Broadband Initiative director Elana Berkowitz on its blog. “Both at home and abroad, we have seen significant innovation in applications having social impact ranging from text message donations for Haiti to online civic engagement tools to mobile medical data collection. But there is still much room to innovate when it comes to social-purpose apps...”