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With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.
With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.
With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.
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