Earlier this month, Techie.com dubbed Burlington one of the most promising tech hubs to watch in 2014; today, an innovative coalition of Vermont groups calling itself the Civic Cloud Collaborative demonstrated why. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today that it’s awarding the Collaborative a $35,000 grant from its Prototype Fund.
The coalition will use the funding to develop an online space — a so-called “Civic Cloud” — for community-minded, nonprofit entities to expand their digital footprint. Members of the Collaborative include the civic-hacking group Code for BTV, the public-access television station CCTV Center for Media and Democracy and the web-based music platform Big Heavy World.
In an email to Seven Days, Big Heavy World executive director James Lockridge explained that the Civic Cloud is essentially “an internet makerspace.”
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I suspect this deal will not be final until the legal problems with the mentioned Burlington Telecom are worked out in court.