by Bill Callahan | Jul 18, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
Ten organizations including NDIA have called on the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to take the lead in creating a new and improved system for gathering national data on broadband access and adoption,...
by Bill Callahan | Mar 10, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion
It’s been a busy year. One year ago today, NDIA and Connect Your Community released AT&T’s Digital Redlining of Cleveland, our first research report on that company’s discrimination against lower-income urban neighborhoods in the deployment of its standard...
by Bill Callahan | Nov 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to move forward with dismantling the broadband Lifeline framework approved a year and a half ago under former Chairman Wheeler. Chairman Ajit Pai and his two Republican colleagues approved a Notice of Proposed...
by Bill Callahan | Oct 19, 2017 | events, Measuring Inclusion
Interested in learning about the FCC’s public data on local broadband access and adoption, and how to make it useful for your community? On November 15, NDIA’s Bill Callahan will hold a two-hour hands-on webinar for affiliates on “Using FCC Form 477...
by Bill Callahan | Oct 7, 2017 | Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
NDIA recently submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission suggesting several ways to make the agency’s public data on broadband deployment and adoption more useful to local digital inclusion efforts. NDIA’s comments can be found here. They...
