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Project OVERCOME creates an innovative environment for seven communities to test locally-accelerated and innovative solutions designed to deliver community Internet connectivity within just 12 months

St. Joseph Post Residents in the Clinton County village of Turney are getting the opportunity to participate in a high-speed broadband experiment. A research team called Project Overcome announced that their first project will focus on the area in and around Turney, thanks to an agreement signed with Wade Farms in nearby Stewartsville. The project is being made possible by a one-year, $300,000 grant. Christel Gollnick, a Navigation Team Member for Maximize Northwest Missouri and President of JUPER Communications in Clinton County, says the goal of the experiment is to figure out how to get fa...

Dive Brief: Goodwill Industries International and Accenture are launching a virtual reality tool that allows job seekers with criminal backgrounds to practice their interviewing skills, interact with human resource professionals and hear from workers who have found employment after incarceration, the organizations announced April 7. Through the project, called Project Overcome, job seekers will learn to “speak comfortably about their incarceration” and use up-to-date technologies.  Ten nonprofit Goodwill organizations around the U.S. will implement the project. Dive Insight: A handful of...