All 50 states are poised to receive large grants of federal money to expand broadband access, but they have a lot of work to do to meet the government’s requirements.

States are also in something of a race: The first ones to get funding will be able to begin hiring from the limited pool of technicians capable of installing fiber optic cables.

https://theconversation.com/every-state-is-about-to-dole-out-federal-funding-for-broadband-internet-not-every-state-is-ready-for-the-task-214356
#infrastructure #technology #digitaldivide

The Canada #Infrastructure Bank has already got $2 billion in equity investment loans out to Indigenous communities and is looking for more opportunities to grow that number.

Loans for up to 90 per cent equity can be arranged for projects in #green infrastructure, clean power, public transit, #trade and #transportation, and #broadband infrastructure ranging from $5 million to $100 million.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/infrastructure-bank-provide-loans-indigenous-equity-investment-major-projects

#Indigenous #FirstNations #Inuit #Métis #equity #industry #business #CIB

"The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our image of our nature and our real nature."

Superb read: https://t.co/NvwUa2KpMS

"A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you."

Poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the essence of friendship and the beautiful ancient Celtic notion of "anam cara" (soul friend) https://t.co/7qGXjLhfWe https://t.co/tmqC4D2FOM

"To study the #Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen