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Submit your Nomination for the 2020 Digital Equity Champion Award!
The fifth Charles Benton Digital Equity Champion Award is officially open for nominations! Two awards will be given: One will recognize an outstanding individual who has made a difference in the field of digital equity; the other will acknowledge an up-and-coming...
NDIA Publications Database
To assist our community in finding important publications, we have created an NDIA Publications Page with all of our publications tagged by type, category, and issues. Now it is even easier to explore NDIA’s practitioner guidebooks, FCC comments, white papers, blog...
NDIA Welcomes Miles Miller!
NDIA is delighted to announce Miles Miller as NDIA's Public Policy Specialist through the MDF 2020 Tech Exchange Grant! NDIA was selected as a site for a Media Democracy Fund Tech Exchange Fellow. Within NDIA, this position will be a Public Policy Specialist. If we...
Rep. Meng proposes hotspot funding to combat “homework gap”
Twenty-six Members of Congress, led by Representative Grace Meng of New York, have proposed a $100 million annual grant program to fund community efforts to provide mobile wi-fi hotspots for home use by low-income students. Rep. Meng introduced H.R.5243, the “Closing...
NDIA to FCC: Broadband affordability should be addressed in annual assessment
NDIA has once again urged the Federal Communications Commission to consider broadband adoption rates and affordability in the agency's annual assessment of “whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and...
Net Inclusion 2020 Registration is LIVE
Net Inclusion 2020 welcomes digital inclusion community practitioners, advocates, academics, Internet service providers, and policymakers to discuss: local, state and federal policies and policy innovations impacting digital equity, sources of financial and...
Angela Siefer – Keynote Video from Philadelphia TLC Conference
Angela was the keynote speaker at Technology Learning Collaborative's 7th annual conference. TLC is Philadelphia's development organization dedicated to digital literacy providers & advocates. Angela's keynote, "Digital Inclusion: Not If But How" included what is...
Worst Connected Cities of 2018
America's persistent digital divide isn't limited to either our biggest cities or our most isolated rural areas. Big gaps in home broadband connection can be found in communities of all sizes throughout the country. NDIA's past Worst Connected Cities reports have only...
Digital Inclusion Week 2019 Recap
Digital Inclusion Week 2019 was a huge success! This year, more organizations held more events than ever before. We are truly starting a movement. Thank you to all of you who participated this week and thank you to our DIW19 Sponsors, Mobile Citizen and Google Fiber!...
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...