by Bill Callahan | May 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal agency that oversees national banks and savings associations, has just added support for community digital inclusion programs to its official list of “qualified activities” that could help a regulated...
by Bill Callahan | May 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The new, three trillion dollar COVID-19 relief proposal (the “HEROES act”) unveiled yesterday by Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives includes $8.8 billion to fund an Emergency Broadband Benefit for consumers who are eligible for Lifeline phone...
by Bill Callahan | May 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
Democratic Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (NJ), yesterday announced the outline of a “Plan to Connect All Americans to Affordable Broadband...
by Bill Callahan | Apr 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance today joined 216 other public interest, government, industry, civil rights, rural advocacy, and academic groups — alongside schools and libraries — in a letter to Congressional leaders calling for forthcoming...
by Bill Callahan | Apr 9, 2020 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
NDIA has submitted comments to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), asking the agency to include digital inclusion programs among the “community support services” for which a bank’s financial support can bolster...
by Bill Callahan | Mar 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
NDIA has released the following statement by Executive Director Angela Siefer on the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act: March 30, 2020 On Friday the House of Representatives passed and President Trump signed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act...