Measuring Inclusion
NDIA joins call for better Federal broadband data
Ten organizations including NDIA have called on the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to take the lead in creating a new and improved system for gathering national data on broadband access and adoption,...
read moreWorst Connected Cities 2016
Using data from the 2016 American Community Survey (ACS), released in September 2017 by the U.S. Census Bureau, NDIA ranked all 186 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 households by the total percentage of each city’s households lacking fixed broadband internet...
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Satellite Service is Not Broadband
Recent FCC "Broadband Deployment Report" states 95% of Americans have access to 25/3 broadband. This number is influenced by the inclusion of satellite service as broadband. THIS IS A PROBLEM. The FCC's broadband data has other flaws but their data is one of the few...
read moreNDIA’s first AT&T redlining report is a year old today
It’s been a busy year. One year ago today, NDIA and Connect Your Community released AT&T’s Digital Redlining of Cleveland, our first research report on that company’s discrimination against lower-income urban neighborhoods in the deployment of its standard...
read moreWebinar: Using FCC Form 477 Census tract and block data
Interested in learning about the FCC's public data on local broadband access and adoption, and how to make it useful for your community? On November 15, NDIA's Bill Callahan will hold a two-hour hands-on webinar for affiliates on "Using FCC Form 477 Census tract and...
read moreNDIA proposes community-friendly changes in FCC Form 477 data
NDIA recently submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission suggesting several ways to make the agency's public data on broadband deployment and adoption more useful to local digital inclusion efforts. NDIA's comments can be found here. They were filed...
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Low Income Cleveland Census Tracts Less Likely to Subscribe to High Speed Broadband than Tracts in Appalachia Ohio
On September 21, 2017, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) filed comments in response to the FCC’s Thirteenth Section 706 Report Notice of Inquiry (NOI), “Concerning Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and...
read moreCYC and ASC3 Publish Longitudinal Study of Broadband Adoption and Impact in Cleveland
On Friday, September 15, 2017, the Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC3) and Samantha Schartman-Cycyk, Research Director for the Connect Your Community Institute jointly released the report: Adoption Persistence: A longitudinal study of the digital inclusion...
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Just Released – Informing Strategic Investment in Digital Equity
Today NDIA releases the report Informing Strategic Investment in Digital Equity: Cleveland/Cuyahoga County. Commissioned by the Cleveland Foundation, the report includes local data, local resource mapping, national program examples, and specific recommendations. The...
read moreMore digital redlining? AT&T home broadband deployment and poverty in Detroit and Toledo
Mapping analyses of AT&T's 2016 broadband deployment data reported to the FCC for Wayne County, MI (Detroit) and Lucas County, OH (Toledo) show the same pattern of "digital redlining" of low income neighborhoods as NDIA research has previously revealed in the...
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