{"id":153557,"date":"2011-07-17T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bccf1b2d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-07-17T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:22:00","slug":"bccf1b3e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bccf1b3e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"One Economy, Commerce to hold July broadband townhall meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Economy, CNMI Department of Commerce, BroadMap LLC, and the New America Foundation will be conducting its final series of town hall meetings to understand residents\u2019 attitudes toward broadband.<\/p>\n<p>The program is part of an initiative of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop and maintain a comprehensive, interactive, and searchable nationwide map of existing broadband capability and availability throughout each state or territory.<br \/>\nIn addition, One Economy aims to improve broadband adoption in CNMI by better understanding the barriers to adopting broadband that residents may face. <\/p>\n<p>The village\/townhall meetings in July are scheduled on the following dates:<\/p>\n<p>-Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6pm at the Koblerville Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>-Monday, July 25, 2011, 6pm at the San Antonio Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>-Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 6pm at the Garapan Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>The public\u2019s attendance and participation in this community engagement will help map Internet access, usage and attitudes. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Economy, CNMI Department of Commerce, BroadMap LLC, and the New America Foundation will be conducting its final series of town hall meetings to understand residents\u2019 attitudes toward broadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}