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Announcing New Indicators for NDIA Digital Inclusion Trailblazers
Digital Inclusion Trailblazers is a public inventory of local government initiatives promoting digital literacy and broadband access for underserved residents. NDIA first launched this effort in 2016 as an advocacy tool for local, state and national digital inclusion...
White Paper: Why Smart Communities Need Digital Inclusion
In this White Paper - "Why Smart Communities Need Digital Inclusion", NDIA reviews what the term smart communities entail and how local government leaders are cementing divides if they fail to include strategies for digital inclusion and digital equity in their smart...
NDIA applauds Congressional effort to increase Lifeline broadband enrollment
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (IL) and U.S. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) have introduced a bill in both houses of Congress that is intended to increase enrollment in the Federal Lifeline program, which provides subsidized broadband as well as phone access...
Representatives McNerney, Lujan and Clarke introduce Digital Equity Act in U.S. House
Three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced a House version of the Digital Equity Act of 2019. The bill, H.R. 4486, is initially sponsored by Representative Jerry McNerney of California; Representative Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Assistant...
Angela Siefer and Xandi Wright on Trending in Education
Angela Siefer and Xandi Wright on Trending in EducationAngela Siefer and Xandi Wright spoke with Mike Palmer and Dan Strafford on the Trending in Education podcast to discuss Digital Equity and Inclusion. Trending in Education is a weekly podcast about the...
Announcing Controlled Digital Lending Webinar
Controlled Digital Lending WebinarIn partnership with Public Knowledge, NDIA is hosting a free webinar. The discussion will be over Controlled Digital Lending, or CDL. CDL allows libraries to take the works that they already own, digitize them, and lend them out in a...
Report predicts “Big Returns” from county investment in digital inclusion
Cuyahoga County, Ohio -- which includes the city of Cleveland and many of its suburbs -- has just released a new report on the ways digital inclusion could improve the operational efficiency of several of its departments, while making County services more accessible...
Introducing NDIA’s Broadband Research Base
NDIA is constantly being asked for references to scholarly and professional research about the social impacts of broadband and digital inclusion. Has anybody studied the impact of broadband availability, speed or adoption on local economic growth? On K-12 education?...
Candidate Warren includes Digital Equity Act in new broadband platform
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 -- available only to...
AT&T’s Digital Redlining of Dallas: New Research by Dr. Brian Whitacre
Dr. Brian Whitacre is a professor in the Agricultural Economics Department of Oklahoma State University who specializes in research on broadband access and use. This work was performed as an independent project and does not reflect the opinions of Oklahoma State...