by Sean Davis | Aug 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News
Featured Image provided by Computer Reach Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S.’s focus on internet access has grown exponentially. Students and parents have increasingly become dependent on broadband service to engage in online learning, pay bills,...
by Sabrina Roach | Aug 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
The Digital Navigator Model Page explains the core elements of the model, hosts sample graphics, worksheets, instructions and assessments, and recognizes everyone in the Digital Navigators Working Group. Repeated thanks to our Digital Navigators Working Group. Their...
by Caitlin Schwartz | Aug 3, 2020 | COVID-19 MEDIA, Digital Inclusion News
This interview by Anna de Haro at iHeartMedia addresses the complexities and urgency around reaching digital inclusion and highlights some resources available. In the US internet is very much a commodity, not a utility, and is very lightly regulated. In part, this is...
by Bill Callahan | Jun 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
United States Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon yesterday introduced the “Emergency Broadband Connections Act”, which would create a new Emergency Benefit for Broadband Service to provide free or low-cost broadband service for low-income families as well as...
by Sabrina Roach | Jun 3, 2020 | Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
Through an NDIA Working Group of digital inclusion practitioners revising their work to be socially distant and/or remote, NDIA has created a baseline job description for a Digital Navigator. In the great tradition of “surfing the internet as we build the internet”,...
by Bill Callahan | May 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The three federal agencies that oversee U.S. banks and savings institutions have adopted special Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) guidelines for the COVID-19 emergency period which, among other things, allow regulated lenders to seek CRA credit for “Loans,...
