See the highlighted projects here...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/20091217-recovery-act-investments-broadband.pdf

-Matt

On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:20 PM, David E. Smith wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 13:24, Robert West <robert.w...@just- 
> micro.com>wrote:
>
>> So how did it get through?  :)
>>
>>
> The grants were reviewed and scored by independent volunteers (I was  
> one),
> who scored each of them using a fairly complex rubric. It covered  
> things
> like "does this meet one of the government's broadband deployment and
> economic stimulus goals," of course, but there also were a lot of  
> points for
> things like "is this budget realistic" and "will this technology  
> actually do
> what the applicant says it will." Obviously, the volunteers' scores  
> weren't
> the only factor considered by NTIA, but I'm proud to have been a bit  
> of a
> nonsense-filter. Obviously I can't talk about any of the specific
> applications I reviewed, but the five applications, totaling over 1000
> pages, had a couple doozies in there. Some folks were interested in  
> trying
> to build out broadband, others were pretty clearly just making a  
> cash grab.
> I'm hoping I was able to do a little bit to help the former and  
> quell the
> latter.
>
> David Smith
> MVN.net
>
>
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