West Virginia Quickly Builds Statewide Network for Students

Government Technology: Long-term connectivity solutions require months or years of planning and construction, but students need Internet access now. With its mountainous topography and sparsely populated areas, West Virginia understands this un-ideal reality as well as any state, so it created what some might call a Band-Aid solution: the Kids Connect Initiative, a unified education network with hundreds of Wi-Fi access points.

The project started in early August, leaving little time for implementation before Sept. 8, the first day of school in West Virginia.

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