by Bill Callahan | Aug 9, 2019 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has pledged to pass the Digital Equity Act, create an Office of Broadband Access with an $85 billion budget to “massively expand broadband access across the country”, and require applicants for that funding —...
by Bill Callahan | Jun 18, 2019 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
NDIA has joined with the Communications Workers of America and Public Knowledge to submit a “friend of the Court” brief in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a Federal Communications Commission order that preempts municipal authority over the use of public...
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...
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...
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...
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...
