NDIA Blog
NDIA Continues to Fight for Rigorous Digital Discrimination Rules
NDIA has warned policymakers about digital redlining, a discriminatory practice that prevents certain populations from having internet access, since 2017. Thanks in part to these warnings and advocacy efforts, the creation of digital discrimination rules was mandated...
NDIA Publishes Digital Inclusion Coalitions Webpage
Digital Inclusion Coalitions have long been critical to creating robust and sustainable digital equity ecosystems. They collaborate to pool together resources and capacity to make things happen that one individual or organization alone could not do. Coalitions...
State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Part 2 – States and Territories
This is the second in a three-part series about the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program announcement from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Read the first blog post with an overview of the program, and check back for more...
The Affordable Connectivity Program is Popular because it Works
Time’s almost up for Congress to extend funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Without the funding, 23+ million households risk losing internet access. This federally funded program has made a huge difference in people's lives, but its future remains...
Broadband Speeds Get Long Overdue Boost
We’ve known for too long that the old broadband speed standards – 25 megabits per second (Mbps) download and three megabits per second upload – were not meeting the needs of increasingly connected households. Internet access is increasingly essential, and computer...
NDIA Releases State Digital Equity Implementation Manual
The good news just keeps getting better! Last week NTIA opened its State Digital Equity Grant Program NOFO, making available $811 Million for States, US Territories, and Native Entities (see our blog about that here).As you know, this is the first time in our...
Highlights from Net Inclusion 2024
We can’t believe it’s been more than a month since we connected with over 1,300 of you at Net Inclusion 2024! Thank you to everyone who attended (and watched the livestream!) for helping make the biggest digital inclusion gathering in the world such a success. We hope...
$840 Million in Digital Equity Grants Available
IT’S HAPPENING!!! NTIA Opens State Digital Equity Grant Program $840 Million Soon Available for States, US Territories, and Native Entities This is the first in a three-part series about the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program announcement from the National...
Honoring Gigi Sohn: A Public Advocate Hero
It’s not every day that you get the honor of presenting an award to someone with such an esteemed background as Gigi Sohn. But that’s exactly what happened this week in Arizona when I introduced her as the distinguished recipient of the Digital Equity Institute Impact...
Low-cost Plan Model
NDIA's Affiliates aim to provide ACP participants with a suitable alternative as the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) ends in their communities. Before the pandemic, a few Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offered “low-cost...