{"id":358,"date":"2008-08-04T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/08\/04\/digital-promise\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:32:06","slug":"digital-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/08\/04\/digital-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpromise.org\/newsite\/HomeMenu\/images\/home_r2_c1.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>Digital Promise continues to move along. It has now passed the US House and Senate. According to the website it :<br \/>\n&#8220;. . .seeks to establish the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), to be funded by revenues from a portion of the Congressionally-mandated auctions of publicly owned telecommunications spectrum or other federal sources.  DO IT\u2019s goal is no less than to transform America\u2019s education, workplace training, and lifelong learning through the development and use of the revolutionary advanced information technologies comparable to those that have already transformed the nation\u2019s economy, its communications system, media, and the daily lives of its people.<br \/>\nDO IT will enable the nation\u2019s schools, universities, libraries, museums, and public broadcasters to reach out to millions of people in inner cities and remote regional areas, no matter how poor or deprived, in the U.S. and throughout the world, with the best of the educational and informational content now locked inside their walls.  It would support the research and development of new models and prototypes of educational content, taking full advantage of the Internet and other new digital distribution technologies.&#8221;<br \/>\nOne to keep an eye on&#8230;love the bit about comparing it to the Land Grant College Act&#8230;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.digitalpromise.org\/newsite\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Promise continues to move along. It has now passed the US House and Senate. According to the website it : &#8220;. . .seeks to establish the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), to be funded by revenues from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/08\/04\/digital-promise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}