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Connecting Rural Ohio

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and The Ohio State University Office of the CIO, with major funding from the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), the Governor’s Office of Appalachia (GOA) and the Ohio Community Computing Network (OCCN), are bringing broadband Internet connectivity to rural Ohio Appalachian communities through the Connecting Rural Ohio (CRO) Wireless Neighborhood Project.

The project is part of a broader effort by various agencies and groups in the Central and Southeastern Ohio region to link instruction and learning, teachers and students, schools, homes and businesses via broadband Internet connectivity. OSC and OSU-CIO engineers are working in conjunction with community and state leaders to install satellite dishes, LAN antennas and learning centers in communities that are geographically remote and far removed from terrestrial broadband Internet connectivity.

The connectivity is providing educational services to adult learners and job training opportunities to low-income residents in one of the most distressed regions in the country.

For more information please visit http://cro.osc.edu