The Blandin Foundation is accepting nominations for its first statewide recognition program for communities at the forefront of broadband technology use. All units of government, nonprofit, for-profit business and community organizations are eligible. Awards will be made in three population ranges for two categories:
- Broadband infrastructure and services, which recognizes the provision of high-speed broadband capacity and services to a community, area or region
- Broadband market and application development, which recognizes efforts to stimulate community demand for broadband services and/or to deploy advanced broadband applications in business, education, government and health care
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2008.

