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Project Overview
This 2-year project has three main components: mobility, economic
development, and technology. Using the circuit rider concept, we
propose a Netmobile (see photos for prototype) that will be deployed
to deliver information technology services to network businesses
and communities in ways that greatly improves their utilization
of technology and thus, for this impoverished region, help level
the playing field with more developed regions. The project will
replicate but update the successful Netmobile model developed several
years ago (light years in the world of technology) by the University
of Texas at Pan America (UTPA). Benefiting from this project will
be communities, businesses, entrepreneurs, and the workforce in
the Mississippi Delta in Arkansas, a 41-county region facing chronic
economic distress.
Our
Mission
Assist businesses and institutions in the Delta by deploying a mobile
technology unit that will facilitate substantial increases in the
customers' use of the Internet as a tool for obtaining information
to solve problems and exploit opportunities.
NETmobile Lease information
NETmobile
Flyer (.pdf format)
NETmobile
Lease Brochure (.pdf format)
What is a NETmobile?
The NETmobile is a wireless mobile office equipped with Internet
access via satellite link provided by Skycasters
Satellite Internet. The NETmobile is capable of setting
up in a meeting room for larger groups to demonstrate what you can
do with access to the Internet. We want to provide you access to
the Internet and train you to use the Internet to build, enhance,
augment, and improve your business. We will refer you to different
modes of help. For example, potentially your local library, the
State Library, National and International business resources.
Our
Goal
Our goal is to make sure that technology is made available to all
of the Delta Region, enhance business, schools, local governments
and anyone who desires to know more about what the Internet can
do for them. We want a win-win situation every time.
Our
Partners
EDA - Economic Development Administration - Regional Office Austin,
TX AUSTIN REGION
Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
327 Congress Avenue Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701-4037
512-381-8144
Fax: 512-381-8177
Pedro R. Garza, Regional Director
pgarza@eda.doc.gov
Arkansas
State Library
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-682-2053
Fax: 501-682-1529
http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/index.html
E.A.S.T.
Initiative - (Environmental and Spatial Technology Project)
8221 Ranch Blvd
Little Rock, Arkansas 72223
501-371-5016
http://www.eastproject.org/Default.asp
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