CTAC Founder Bill Coleman is helping the Blandin Foundation with their first Minnesota Community Broadband Awards. The goal is to recognize communities, companies and community institutions that are successfully implementing strategies that improve deployment and use of broadband. Awards will be given out in two topical categories:

Broadband infrastructure and services; recognizing the provision of high-speed broadband capacity and services to a community, area or region

Broadband market and application development; recognizing efforts to stimulate community demand for broadband services and/or to deploy advanced broadband applications in business, education, government and health care.

And the awards will be given to three population ranges:

• Communities under 2,500
• Communities between 2,500 and 10,000
• Communities above 10,000

Visit the Blandin Foundation web site for more information.