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 […]
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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 […]
NASHVILLE, TN – Americans have been on line a lot more since the pandemic began. Children attended school remotely, people worked from home, telemedicine became a new trend, and all kinds of meetings took place on ZOOM. “For more than a decade the CETF has […]
NOTE: This pilot concluded in 2021. On September 30, 2023 CETF transitioned the management of the San José Digital Inclusion Partnership back to the City of San José. For current San José programs visit SJ Access: www.sjpl.org/sjaccess/ SAN JOSÉ, CA — Today San José Mayor […]