by Tsion Tesfaye | May 9, 2023 | ACP, Digital Inclusion News, Policy, Policy Positions
Angela Siefer, NDIA executive director, will advocate for a national digital inclusion strategy today while testifying on “Closing the Digital Divide: Overseeing Federal Funds for Broadband Deployment” before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and...
by Tsion Tesfaye | Mar 27, 2023 | ACP, Digital Inclusion News
FCC Announces First Round of Grant Awards Over 220 organizations around the country will soon have access to over $73 million in dedicated funds to help support outreach and enrollment in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), according to public notices...
by Tsion Tesfaye | Feb 24, 2023 | Digital Inclusion News
In the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Congress recognized that digital discrimination is a real and present problem for many people and charged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with developing rules to prevent and eliminate it. Congress did this in...
by Tsion Tesfaye | Dec 19, 2022 | Digital Inclusion News
The FCC Will Ask for Input on Rules to Prevent and Eliminate Digital Discrimination The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop rules to address digital discrimination. But before they do,...
by Tsion Tesfaye | Nov 21, 2022 | ACP, Digital Inclusion News
Updated December 9, 2022 with NDIA webinar video. On November 10, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially opened the application window for the Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program with the release of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ...
