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Connect connects Iowa Iowa Association of Regional Councils, access to high-speed Internet to improve acceptance and use by the State

Des Moines, IA (Nasdaq) 20 January 2012

Today Connect Iowa and Iowa Association of Regional Councils (IARC) has to raise a new partnership announced to launch a state “Connected” Community Involvement Program to broadband access, adoption and use. High-speed Internet is the key to gaining quality jobs, improving education, the people is in contact with state services and the quality of the buildings all around better life. In collaboration with Connect Iowa, members of the Iowa Association of Regional Councils taking over the expansion of the reach of broadband in their communities.

took the staff of the Regional Council of Governments (COG) from around the state an intensive week of training Connect Iowa and began, teams of local leaders who contribute to the plan for the expansion of broadband would shape their community. These leaders to return home this week with a new mission-critical. Revitalize their communities through the expansion of broadband

“Getting all of Iowa, coupled with high-quality broadband communications is vital for the economic development of our country. Iowa councils of government, in collaboration with IARC, will get up the engine of the initiative and Iowa Connect operating system in each of their regions,” says Iowa Association of Regional Councils Executive Director Nichole Warren. “You reach community leaders and asked them to local planning teams.”

Close the formation of a new advisory board of the broadband that help guide and support this new initiative.

“We are pleased to join together with the IARC working in the communities,” says program director Amy cooler Connect Iowa. “Change is happening locally and through the development of our relations with suppliers and local leaders and combination that have the intelligence we have collected through our programs and research, we can identify solutions that best fit the community.”

Connected is an initiative in the community based on broadband access, adoption and use to accelerate. The advantages which helps the certification process for communities through a process of evaluation, benchmarking and planning, participants to identify the technological strengths of their community and the challenges and help local community members in the game options.

“Connected Connect Iowa Community program is a great opportunity for cities and regions by the state to assess its scope and to find real solutions,” said cooler. “The goal is to put the tools in the hands of the community to help provide a detailed assessment of what local needs are real, and then create a plan for the information to the community as efficiently as possible. It could be updated school network or access to a community without services, but the best part is that each plan is tailored to the specific needs of each region and its landscape. “

with interest in bringing broadband households and local businesses are invited to join in the efforts of community planning. For more information on participating, please contact akuhlers cooler in (a) connectiowa (dot) org or 515-421-2561.

About Iowa: Iowa Connect is a subsidiary of Connected Nation and operates as a non-profit organization in the state of Iowa to promote broadband access, adoption and use. The Economic Development Authority Iowa (Ieda) is leading the initiative to access broadband Internet services in rural Iowa Iowa Connect rise was working through the state with all broadband providers in Iowa to create maps commissioned detailed broadband and the development of a state plan for the deployment and diffusion of broadband. For more information, see:. Http: / / www.connectiowa.org

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San Diego, California (Nasdaq) 22 August 2011

The Official Mobile Guide Balboa Park is available through the Free Application for Android and Meridian IOS devices. If you directions to the Natural History Museum of San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden, or the Spanish Village Art Center need, the software application for mobile phones help you find your way. Providing location-based information and step by step instructions for more than 80 museums, gardens, restaurants and other attractions, the application also has a daily management of the parks many events and exhibitions.

began after the success of the iPhone application Balboa Park that had more than 25,000 downloads in its first year, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (Bpoc) cooperation with Meridian – whose founders created the first application of Balboa Park – to create an extended Guide for users of Android and IOS device. Access Meridian since the beginning of this year as the leading platform for mobile users on location-based information and step by step instructions for multiple locations.

said Kiyo Kubo, CEO of Meridian. “Rather, we can try to offer useful tools in any place you visit a place, offer the only location-based technology. Balboa Park is a perfect choice given the wide range of attractions on the basis of the park.”

Meridian is available for free through Apple’s App Store and Android Market.

Events Guide: Dynamically updated calendar of events can ever be searched by location and category. If you find a child-friendly exhibition, a play or a new IMAX film, you can find it in our events calendar meridian.

attractions: Find detailed information for more honored than 80 attractions, including the world famous San Diego Zoo, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Natural History Museum and the San Diego Museum of Art

restaurant guide: Satisfy your cravings for the collection of information on all restaurants and cafes in Balboa Park is the perfect solution for your budget and taste.

Cards. Show tickets for all cultural institutions, gardens, walkways, trails and restaurants in Park

turn-by-turn. Instructions: As with all places on the platform, Meridian, Balboa Park offers step by step instructions to the events and places

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About Balboa Park Online Collaborative

(Bpoc)

Founded in 2008 by Legler Benbough Foundation supports Bpoc 26 Cultural institutions in Balboa Park in San Diego. Its mission is to promote and implement a fundamental change in the way of museums, arts and cultural institutions in Balboa Park science approach to the use of online technology to online technology an integral part of the way institutions in fulfilling their tasks, interact with customers and work together to reduce to improve their technological capabilities and cost by integrating the organizations with similar needs together on projects of common interest and allow small institutions, systems technology will benefit from the same quality as larger companies benefit in turn the aerodynamic cost. http://www.bpoc.org / @ bpoc_sd

About Balboa Park

San Diego Balboa Park is a must, just minutes from downtown, and as one of the best parks in the world. The park has 15 major museums, several performing arts venues, gardens and many other cultural and recreational facilities, including San Diego Zoo. With a variety of established cultural institutions under its beautiful lush planted 1,200 hectares of Balboa Park is the nation’s largest urban cultural park. http://www.balboapark.org

at Meridian

Meridian is a supplier of software for mobile location-based services. Meridian’s flagship product is the first platform for mobile applications, the user engages with your turn by turn directions and other location-based services, where they are at participating locations. Meridian is currently announced for visitors JELD-WEN Field, Powells Books, Portland Art Museum, Balboa Park and many other clients available shortly. Meridian has offices in Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon can learn more about Meridian http://www.meridianapps.com.

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