Idaho certainly contributes its share of stops along the information superhighway.
Whether you live in Idaho, plan on visiting soon, or just want more information about the Gem State, I hope you will enjoy visiting the sites below.
As a fellow traveler on the web, I hope you will let me know about other interesting Idaho sites. I always enjoy visiting new webpages, especially when they pertain to Idaho, and there is plenty of room on this page for more Idaho sites. If you have one in mind, please contact me with the address. Of course, I cannot guarantee that it will be added here, but I certainly would appreciate your assistance.
Interactive Numeric & Spatial Information Data Engine
INSIDE Idaho
In 1999, I secured an appropriation for the University of Idaho to begin work on INSIDE Idaho, an online website for census, demographic and geographic data. In combination with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the site has grown into a tremendous resource, offering statistics in geographic formats about Idaho's population, demographics, economy, employment, crime, climate, political districts and more.
The Idaho State Department of Administration declared INSIDE Idaho as the state's clearinghouse for Idaho's geo-spatial information, and the site won a "Special Achievement in GIS" award from the Environmental Systems Research Institute in recognition of its outstanding work in the Geographic Information System (GIS) field. The site was selected from more than 100,000 user sites worldwide. GIS and other business, natural resources and social science students at UI use the site to complete class assignments; it hosted the 2000 census data and map components used for the last state redistricting effort; and it is used by tribal, state and local agencies to centralize their geo-spatial data into one interface.
Youth Endowment for Activities Foundation
I am proud to serve as an Honorary Co-Chairman, with Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, of this nonprofit foundation of the Idaho High School Activities Association (IHSAA). The foundation was incorporated in 1986, and organized to provide financial support for state level participation in IHSAA sponsored state championships.
The IHSAA sponsors state competition in cross country, volleyball, football, girls basketball, boys basketball, wrestling, golf, tennis, girls softball, track & field, soccer, drama, debate, speech. Nearly every school in the state of Idaho sends qualifiers to at least one of these activities costing schools approximately $700,000 annually. YEA will ease the financial burden by reimbursing qualifying schools travel expenses.
The endowment is building a solid foundation for high school activities in the 21st century.
Buy Idaho
Buy Idaho was formed in 1986 as a private non-profit organization that promotes products and services produced in Idaho. The formal mission of Buy Idaho is:
-To help Buy Idaho member firms develop an increased volume of business within and outside of Idaho;
-To expand Idaho's people's knowledge about the broad variety of services and of products grown and manufactured in Idaho; and
-To encourage Idahoans to produce Idaho products and services at first choice, by demonstrating the economic benefits to all in Idaho of retaining jobs and tax revenues developed by in-state business, within Idaho.
Member organizations range from academic institutions to yogurt shops. They range in size one-person enterprises to the largest businesses in the state.
Idaho's Congressional Delegation
State Government
Tourism
Colleges and Universities
News and Media
Miscellaneous
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