by Davida Delmar | Aug 15, 2024 | Digital Inclusion News
Seven Star Communities is a new initiative to honor and celebrate Native nations accomplishing digital inclusion work. Native nations are a critical part of our network of digital inclusion practitioners here at NDIA. The Seven Star Communities program hopes to...
by Shauna Edson | Jul 31, 2024 | DEA, Digital Equity Act, Digital Inclusion News
On July 24, 2024, NTIA published the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Competitive Grant Program. The Competitive Grant Program is the third (and final) set of funds available from the Digital Equity Act (DEA) authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and...
by Shauna Edson | Jul 15, 2024 | Digital Inclusion News
To help millions of households navigate and evaluate low-cost internet plans, NDIA created a new rating system to evaluate a plan’s affordability and quality. NDIA GIG (Grading Internet for Good) reflects lessons from ACP that contributed to the program’s...
by Shauna Edson | Jul 2, 2024 | Digital Inclusion News
This is the third in a three-part series about the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program announcement from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Read the first blog post with an overview of the program and the second with...
by Aviance Washington | Jul 1, 2024 | Digital Inclusion News
We're going to Gila River! Join us at the nation’s premier digital equity event, gathering together practitioners, advocates, academics, internet service providers, and policymakers as we make history with our first-ever conference on Tribal Lands in Gila River...
by Kristi Zappie-Ferradino | Jun 28, 2024 | Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
In 2020, NDIA convened a group of digital inclusion practitioners to establish a definition for the term “digital navigator.” The term described a model for digital inclusion built upon years of similar work, tailored for the new realities of the time. Together, NDIA...
