Although much of the conversation around broadband has focused on increasing connections, experts and advocates have long known that the availability of high-speed, reliable internet is only the first step: Ensuring access will require that consumers can afford their service and acquire the skills to […]
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With billions of public dollars at stake, top U.S. Internet researchers and policy leaders will identify effective models to get households in need online In the first-of-its-kind collaboration, nationally-recognized researchers from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, in partnership […]
Broadband and highways are common-sense companions. Recently, Caltrans, the San Diego Association of Governments, San Diego County, and the California Transportation Commission joined forces to help close the digital divide, allocating $7 million for installation of Internet fiber in conjunction with a scheduled pavement rehabilitation project […]
Gov. Newsom’s words rang true last month when he stated, ‘access to the Internet is as vital as water and electricity.’ Internet access is a human right, and California must treat it as such. The gaps between the connected and unconnected have never been clearer […]
Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund which had pressed for the $100 billion originally proposed by President Joe Biden, nonetheless hailed the broadband money as “huge.” “We hope the additional federal funds will be for California and for all states, an […]
Join Sunne Wright McPeak and Broadband Breakfast Editor and Publisher Drew Clark for Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 12 Noon ET, on “A Call for a Digital Equity Bill of Rights.” August 10, 2021—A petition calling for a Digital Equity Bill […]
Introducing the First-Ever Digital Equity Bill of Rights Declaring Access, Affordability and Digital Skills Training a 21st Century Civil Right Los Angeles and Bay Area – August 5, 2021 – As national leaders are preparing to vote on a bill to spend $65 billion to […]
Of the many educational inequities highlighted by the pandemic, perhaps the most glaring has been the “digital divide” — the gap in technology access between students from low-income families and their more affluent peers. Even after a year of remote learning, a Census Bureau study […]
Digital equity advocates – people who have been working for decades now to come up with solutions to narrow the divide between people who are connected to broadband and those who still aren’t – say Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must partner with the ethnic media […]
The Internet has become so central to modern life that access to it is a necessity. Broadband access is an integral part of infrastructure negotiations and in the United Nations, that access is considered a human right. At a panel convened by Ethnic Media Services […]