Policy Positions | National Digital Inclusion Alliance

FCC broadband report ignores affordability issue

by Angela Siefer | May 30, 2019 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions

The Federal Communication Commission’s 2019 Broadband Deployment Report was finally released on May 29, after months of delay to correct serious errors in its initial data. Even with those errors partially corrected, the new report’s findings have been...

New Digital Equity Act website; House intro coming soon

by Bill Callahan | Apr 30, 2019 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions

NDIA is launching a new, dedicated website for the Digital Equity Act of 2019: https://www.digitalequityact.org/. The new site features: — Links to the bill’s Congress.Gov page, which has the full text, an updated list of sponsors, committee status and...

Senator Murray introduces Digital Equity Act of 2019

by Bill Callahan | Apr 11, 2019 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions

In a major development for community digital inclusion advocates, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) today introduced the “Digital Equity Act”, which would authorize more than $1 billion in Federal grant funding over the next five years to support digital...

NDIA to OCC: Let banks seek CRA credit for digital inclusion support

by Bill Callahan | Nov 25, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions

NDIA has asked the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), the U.S. Treasury Department agency which serves as the Federal regulator for many of the nation’s banks, to allow those banks to seek Community Reinvestment Act credit for their financial...

NDIA to FCC: “Closing digital divide” means your annual broadband report should look at affordability, digital redlining

by Bill Callahan | Sep 18, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions

NDIA has called on the Federal Communications Commission to prove its commitment to “closing the digital divide” by adding home broadband affordability, the broadband adoption rates of low income households, and the digital redlining of urban neighborhoods...

NDIA urges USDA rural broadband program to push for affordability

by Bill Callahan | Sep 11, 2018 | Policy Positions

NDIA has submitted comments to the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), urging the agency to treat affordability for lower-income rural residents as a key factor in implementing its E-Connectivity Pilot, a new grant and loan program for...

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Definition: Digital Equity

Digital Equity is a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy and economy. Digital Equity is necessary for civic and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning, and access to essential services.

Definition: Digital Inclusion

Digital Inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities, including the most disadvantaged, have access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This includes 5 elements: 1) affordable, robust broadband internet service; 2) internet-enabled devices that meet the needs of the user; 3) access to digital literacy training; 4) quality technical support; and 5) applications and online content designed to enable and encourage self-sufficiency, participation and collaboration. Digital Inclusion must evolve as technology advances. Digital Inclusion requires intentional strategies and investments to reduce and eliminate historical, institutional and structural barriers to access and use technology.

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