PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To promote the widespread use and availability of advanced telecommunications and information technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. By providing matching grants for information infrastructure projects, this program will help develop a nationwide, interactive, multimedia information infrastructure that is accessible to all citizens, in rural areas as well as urban areas.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. INFORMATION AND STATISTICS;
- General;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Anyone/general public;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;