1. Master Calendar The Digital Bridge Trust Fund Act November 1, 2000

2. Agenda Background on Community Technology Centers Program Purpose of Master Calendar Approach Timeline: Community Technology Centers Task 1. Staff Task 2. Offices Task 3. Funding Task 4. Program Monitoring & Evaluation Conclusion

3. What? Community Technology Centers ($200M). Why? Assist in bridging digital divide. Where? Underserved rural, urban, Native American areas. How? Provide funding to various community based organizations who are interested in setting up community technology centers. Community Technology Centers

4. Provide a comprehensive timeline for program implementation. Help achieve programmatic goals and objectives in consideration of allocated resources. Delineate tasks and sub-tasks to specific organizational units and staff members. Purpose of Master Calendar

5. Draw from organizational and staffing plan, budget plan, and performance management/TQM analysis. Determine who performs the tasks. Establish dependencies between tasks. Assign appropriate task length. Align tasks with fiscal year. Approach

6. Organizational Chart

7. Timeline: Staff Task NameDurationStart DateEnd Date 1.1 Regional Digizone HQ Staff 1.1.1 Office of the President 1.1.2 Office of the Regional Coordinator 1.1.3 Office of the Financial Officer 1.1.4 Review Board 75 days11/01/0002/13/01 1.2 State Digizone Staff (50 states+D.C.)40 days01/10/0103/06/01 1.3 Local Digizone Staff25 days04/04/0105/08/01 Task 1. Hire Digizone Program Staff - 135 days

8. Timeline: Offices Task NameDurationStart DateEnd Date 2.1 Establish Regional Digizone HQ25 days12/06/0001/09/01 2.2 Establish State Digizone Offices25 days01/10/0102/13/01 2.3 Establish Local Offices (Proj.Mgrs)25 days04/25/0105/29/01 Task 2. Establish Digizone Admin. Offices – 125 days

9. Timeline: Funding Task NameDurationStart DateEnd Date 3.1 Needs Assessment Reg. Digizones40 days02/07/0104/03/01 3.2 Application and Review Process47 days03/26/0105/29/01 3.3 Implementation and Support73 days05/30/0109/07/01 Task 3. Funding Allocation for Digizones – 153 days

10. Timeline: Monitoring/Evaluation Task NameDurationStart DateEnd Date 4.1 Follow-up Site Visits68 days06/06/0109/07/01 4.2 Semi-Annual/Concluding Reports5 days09/10/0109/14/01 4.3 Summarize Program Evaluations for Presidents 5 days09/10/0109/14/01 4.4 Digizones Present Annual Report to Board of Trustees 5 days09/17/0109/21/01 4.5 Board of Trustees Prepare Report to President and Congress 5 days09/24/0109/28/01 Task 4. Program Monitoring & Evaluation – 83 days

11. Conclusion