Almost six months ago, Comcast launched an ambitious broadband adoption program, Internet Essentials, with a focus on closing the digital divide and getting more low-income Americans connected to the Internet. Today we are releasing a launch progress report that highlights our successes and achievements and shares some of the lessons we have learned and the [...]
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LISTA Guest Blogger: David L. Cohen, EVP Comcast – Reports on Internet Essentials Launch Impact
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U.S. Census 2010… Is All About Hispanics as seen in MediaPost
March 24th, 2011 JAM This is a very big year for the Census and not just for the obvious reason that new national Census numbers are forthcoming. The new data, which will be trickling out in coming days, reveal some profound shifts in demographic trends that will have major implications for marketers: You had better start thinking local. It [...]
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Tags: census 2010, DC Hispanic Business, Diversity, hispanic, Hispanic Association, Hispanic Heritage, Hispanic-Owned Companies, Immigration. Latinos, latino, Latinos, Latinos en Information Sciences and Technology Association, LISTA in the News, NCLR, USHCC, Washington 
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As Landline Use Wanes, FCC Moves Funds To Broadband..
February 8th, 2011 JAM As expected, the Federal Communications Commission voted today to revise an $8 billion funding program by shifting subsidies from companies that provide telephone service to broadband providers. The move is aimed at increasing the availability of broadband in rural areas, where an estimated 24 million people lack high-speed Web access — while virtually all U.S. [...]
Posted in Broadband, Government, LISTA in the News, Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, Policy Tags: ATT, Broadband, COMCAST, FCC Chair, google, latino, Latinos en Information Sciences and Technology Association, NCLR, net neutrality, Secretary of Labor, USHCC, VERIZON, Washington No Comments »Working on IT: 50,000 New Health IT workers Needed by Joseph Conn / HITS
May 25th, 2010 JAM Working on IT By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer Posted: May 24, 2010 – 12:01 am ET Part one of a two-part series Access part two: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the stimulus law, has a host of tight deadlines for its myriad health information technology subsidy [...]
Posted in Health IT, Health Information Technology, Menus, Uncategorized, Workforce Development Tags: conference, DC Hispanic Business, digital divide, Health Care reform, Health IT, Hispanic-Owned Companies, latino, Latinos en Information Sciences and Technology Association, Latinos in Information Science and Technology Association, Menus, Secretary of Labor, Vish Sankaran No Comments »Editorial Guest Writer Rafael A. Fantauzzi, CEO, NPRC: Stop the FCC from Treating Puerto Ricans as Second Class Citizens.
May 24th, 2010 JAM Washington, DC [CapitalWirePR] May 24, 2010 – Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) treated Puerto Rico and its elected representatives with disregard and disrespect. It held that Puerto Ricans don’t deserve the same quality of access to telecommunications services that other Americans enjoy. This is wrong and this must be reversed. Congress created the FCC [...]
P.R. Medical Industry Faces Challenges to EHR Compliance
May 12th, 2010 JAM Local hospitals shut out of federal funding for program; costs pose problem across the board, but benefits outweigh obstaclesPuerto Rico’s private hospitals are pushing for a share of federal funding they say is vital to meet a 2015 deadline for all medical institutions and practitioners around the nation to implement electronic health records (EHRs) [...]
Latinas Leading By Example: Veronica Gonzalez
March 6th, 2010 JAM Veronica Gonzalez Pharmacology and toxicology researcher, Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona The world of science and technology is one full of amazing discoveries and fascinating new technologies. It is an ever-changing world in which the players are constantly challenging the limits of knowledge and redefining our future. As new problems arise in our [...]
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Proposed Health IT Certification Programs Posted by David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. – National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
March 5th, 2010 JAM Proposed Health IT Certification Programs Today the Department of Health and Human Services released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology (Health IT). The rule first proposes the creation of a temporary certification program for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and EHR modules. This serves as a bridge [...]
Census: Internet Use in the United States – 2009
February 18th, 2010 JAM Internet Use in the United States: 2009 — Census released today Tables with national- and state-level data showing who is accessing the Internet, cross-tabulated by age, sex, race, Hispanic-origin, educational attainment and employment status. State data show Internet usage at home versus use at other locations. Also included is whether people are using broadband or [...]
Posted in Government, LISTA in the News, Menus, Policy, Workforce Development Tags: Buzz, Career Events, census 2010, corporate, DC Hispanic Business, digital divide, emerge, google, Health IT, Hispanic Heritage, Hispanic-Owned Companies, latino, Latinos en Information Sciences and Technology Association, LISTA in the News, Menus, NCLR, President Obama, Washington No Comments »The Census Is Coming!!! The Census Is Coming!!! The Census Is Coming!!!
February 10th, 2010 JAM “Ths 2010 Census is Easy, Safe and Important …an accurate count of the U.S. population forms the basis for many important but often overlooked political, economic, and social decisions that are made that end up affecting our daily lives
For More Information Please Visit www.2010.census.gov/2010census/why/index.php
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