Community Planning Resources
Broadband Planning and Mapping
- Leveraging Broadband in Your Community: A Workbook to Help Communities Stimulate Broadband Development
- Nebraska Broadband Initiative
- Nebraska Broadband Map
- Federal Broadband Map
- Ookla Speed Test
- Mississippi State University Extension Service Intelligent Community Institute
- Intelligent Community Self-Test (15 Questions)
- NTCA Smart Rural Community Resources
- CTC’s Gigabit Communities
Surveys
- Nebraska Broadband Household Surveys 2014 and 2010
- Nebraska Broadband Business Survey
- Pew Research Center on Internet, Science and Technology
- NTIA Digital Nation Reports
Programs for Low-Income Consumers
Code Schools and IT Leadership Development
Career/Workforce Development
Learn to Code-Youth/Young Adults
- Code.org
- Code Academy
- Khan Academy (Requires registration)
- Scratch
- Code Combat
- Code Monkey
- Blockly Games
- Crunchzilla
- CodeSpark - The Foos
- Grok Learning
- Girls Who Code
- Made with Code
- Sew Electric
- Code Crush - Camp for Girls at UNO
- AIM CoderDojos
- Nebraska Library Commission Children and Youth Coding Resources
- SMART Girls Club - YWCA Lincoln
- StudentRND
- 4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology
Accelerators/Contests
IT, Innovation and Rural Futures Conferences
- Big Omaha
- Infotech
- Nebraska Code Camp/Nebraska.Code()
- Heartland Developers Conference
- Rural Futures Conference
Technology and Start Up Meet Ups
- The Big Plate
- 1 Million Cups (1MC)
- Open Nebraska
- Omaha Coding Women
- Lincoln Coding Women
- Women in Technology of the Heartland
Maker Spaces
- The Omaha Maker Group
- Metropolitan Community College Fab Lab
- Libraries as Maker Spaces—Nebraska Library Commission Tech Talk Webinar
- UNL Maker Space
- UNL Maker Club
Venture Capital/Business Innovation Grants
- Dundee Venture Capital
- Treetop Ventures
- Nebraska Angels
- Nebraska Global
- Linseed Capital
- Prairie Nebraska
- Invest Nebraska
- Business Innovation Act of 2011
Agriculture
Government Use of Technology
Libraries
- Nebraska Library Commission Children and Youth Coding Resources
- Nebraska Library Commission Youth Coding Resources Webinar
- Libraries as Maker Spaces—Nebraska Library Commission Tech Talk Webinar
- NCompass Live: Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: Using the Arduino to Develop Coding Literacy in Libraries
- Edge Library Management and Assessment Tool
eHealth
Get Involved
Learn more and take action to bring broadband to your area.
Is broadband available?
Review the Nebraska Broadband Map
See what broadband services are available in your town or region in Nebraska. The data for the map was collected from broadband service providers, anchor institutions and residents of Nebraska.
View the Map
Is your community leveraging broadband?
Review the Broadband Community Planning Workbook.
Learn how your community is currently utilizing broadband and identify ways in which broadband can enhance or develop opportunities. Click here to see if your community is ready to leverage broadband.
View the Workbook