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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...
New NDIA infographic: Who doesn’t have Internet?
NDIA has a brand new infographic explaining that: As important as rural broadband infrastructure investment may be, it won't be enough by itself to close the nation's broadband gap. Why not? Because... ... lack of physical network access is just one of the reasons why...
NDIA, CWA, Public Knowledge file brief in case vs. FCC’s 5G preemption
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 property for 5G...
Smart Cities and Digital Equity
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 property for 5G...
FCC broadband report ignores affordability issue
SAVE THE DATE – Net Inclusion 2020
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 called...
New Digital Equity Act website; House intro coming soon
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...
NDIA Fellows
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 other...