NDIA Blog
How You Should Prepare for Digital Equity Grants
NDIA’s Senior Programs Manager Paolo Balboa led a plenary discussion at Net Inclusion 2024 around the Digital Equity Act and what steps to take to prepare for the grant process. Click here to access the slides from the presentation.This year, the Digital Equity Act...
Sustaining the Movement and Funding: The Future of Digital Inclusion
Angela Siefer, executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), spoke from the Net Inclusion 2024 stage in Philadelphia on February 14. She outlined a vision for a sustainable future for the digital inclusion field and movement. Watch her speech...
New ACP Transition Webpage
ACP Transition Webpage NDIA created an ACP Transition webpage that provides resources and support for NDIA Affiliates supporting ACP participants as they transition from the ACP program. The webpage covers details about the ACP Wind-Down, talking points for explaining...
Net Inclusion 2024: Where You’ll Find 1,200 of Your People
Registration Closes When We Sell out or by Jan. 31Whether you know it yet or not, you will find your people at Net Inclusion. We’re just 21 days away from the biggest (and best, if I may) digital inclusion conference in the United States, and probably in the...
Advocating for ACP Outreach Grantees During ACP Wind-Down
NDIA along with Five Community Partners File Letter with FCC Representing ACP Outreach Grantees Since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established the ACP Outreach Grant Programs (National Competitive Outreach Grant Program; Tribal Competitive Outreach...
Advocating for Consumers and Organizations Facing a Potential ACP Wind-Down
NDIA Files Letter with FCC Representing Its 1,500+ Affiliate OrganizationsWhile continuing to fight for Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) funding, we must also prepare for a future without the program if Congress doesn’t act. We spoke with NDIA community members...
What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for Digital Equity?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the talk of 2023. Within the NDIA community, we have early adopters, technologists who dove in headfirst, those who have only touched the tip of the AI iceberg, people who have read hundreds of ethics concerns and are...
NDIA’s Digital Inclusion Community Grew 80% in FY2023
NDIA Releases New Impact Report In FY2023, the digital inclusion community grew by 80 percent. With the growth of the field and the pressing need for resources to navigate once-in-a-lifetime federal funding for digital equity, NDIA has been busy. As we wrap up...
NDIA Launches New Brief on Sustaining Digital Inclusion Coalitions
Using guidance from community-based digital inclusion coalitions, NDIA published a Leadership Brief: Digital Inclusion Coalitions. Digital inclusion coalitions bring together digital inclusion practitioners, local governments, institutions, and lived experts who...
NDIA Recognizes Record-Setting 47 Digital Inclusion Trailblazers
Today, NDIA named 47 local governments as 2023 Digital Inclusion Trailblazers, recognizing their essential efforts in closing the digital divide. Spanning 23 states, these communities demonstrate the important role municipal, county, and regional governments...