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FYI RURAL-COMNET> ACE: Rural Economic Development Success - 9/18

This is for your information.  BTW, Thomas Tate at the US Extension Service
is an incredibly cool guy and very helpful with connections related to
rural telecommunications or agricultural telecommunications projects.

Nancy


>From: "THOMAS TATE OF RESD" <ttate@smoke.reeusda.gov>
>Organization: USDA/CSREES
>To: #RESD@maat.reeusda.gov
>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:45:58 +500
>Subject: RURAL-COMNET> ACE:  Rural Economic Development Success - 9/18
>Reply-to: ttate@reeusda.gov
>CC: rural-comnet@maat.reeusda.gov
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>RESD FRIENDS:  Please share with others --
>Mark your calender for Thursday,  September 18,  10 am.
>RESD Research project results will be presented in a public meeting
>at SBA (Small Business Administration),  409 - 3rd Street. S.W.
>Take Orange or Blue line to Federal Center SW Metro Stop.
>Jerry Nagel,  will report on the success of his CSREES and Ford
>Foundations funded projects that are using the Internet to strengthen
>Rural America.  Please join me at 10 am to hear about the results
>produced in Rural America.
>Tom Tate
>
>Date:          Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:08:27 -0500
>
>Mr. Jerry Nagel, Director of the Red River Trade Corridor, on the
>campus of the University of Minnesota in Crookston, will recap the
>Internet and telecommunications projects completed and in progress at
>the RRTC.  With funding from the USDA CSREES program the RRTC has
>completed an Internet educational and content development program that
>prepared Agri-business organizations with the abilities to use the
>Internet as a tool for domestic and international business development
>and informational outreach.
>
>With the assistance of funding from the
>Ford Foundation, the RRTC is now completing a similar project that
>focused on Emerging Women Entrepreneurs.  This June they also began a
>telecommunications project with a small group of rural manufacturers in
>the Red River Valley states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
>and the Canadian province of Manitoba.
>
>For additional information on the RRTC and Mr. Nagel please visit the
>RRTC homepage at http://www.rrtrade.org .
>
>----------------------------------
>
>Bruce Brorson, Associate Professor
>        and Senior Technology Associate
>University of Minnesota, Crookston
>        in the office of the Red River Trade Corridor
>2900 University Avenue
>202 Selvig Hall
>Crookston, MN 56716
>
>mailto:bbrorson@mail.crk.umn.edu
>http:\\www.rrtrade.org
>Phone - 218-281-8050
>Fax - 218-281-8050
>
>--
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Thomas G. Tate, RESD-CSREES-USDA, Room 3901 South Building
>Washington, D.C. 20250-0915
>(v) 202-720-2727 (f) 202-690-2975
>E-mail: ttate@reeusda.gov
>ACE Home Page: http://www.sba.gov/ace
>ACE Monthly Meeting: 3rd Thursday Morning - 10 am - Noon
>8th Floor Conference Room, 409 3rd Street S.W., Washington, DC
>Metro Stop: Federal Center S.W. (Blue or Orange line)
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
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>

Nancy Willard                             Phone: (541) 344-9125
Information Technology Consultant         Internet: nwillard@ordata.com
788 W 23rd Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405
K-12 Internet AUP resource site: http://www.erehwon.com/k12aup
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