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WinstonNet Inc., the North Carolina non-profit working to overcome the digital divide, has received a $200,000 grant to develop thin clients for classrooms. The grant is part of a $6 million initiative designed to bring high-speed Internet access to the state’s schools.North Carolina has granted $200,000 to WinstonNet Inc.,a non-profit working in that state to overcome the digital divide, to develop a “thin client” computer program that would allow schools in rural areas to deliver high-speed internet access via bare bones computers.

The grant is part of a $6 million initiative, called the N.C. School Connectivity, being coordinated through the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at N.C.StateUniversity under a grant the institute received from the state general assembly last year.

N.C. School Connectivity aims to bring high-speed access to the state’s elementary, middle and high schools over the next three years. The institute is also working with IBM Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp.

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