This resource explores Albuquerque, New Mexico's initiatives to close the digital divide. The report highlights projects led by the public school system, the University of New Mexico, and the City, and describes broadband issues pertinent to the indigenous community.

Published in August 2018, the Michigan Broadband Roadmap is a report from the Michigan Consortium of Advanced Networks (MCAN) to outline long-term goals for the state, with the purpose of identifying gaps in service coverage and capacity, along with providing recommendations for the public and private sector. Chief recommendations focus on connecting unserved communities, improving affordability, increasing digital literacy, closing the homework gap, and investing in broadband to improve access and adoption.

This resource showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local internet service providers (ISP) have taken to expand affordable, high-quality internet access in Minnesota. It includes a series of case studies that detail how communities are meeting the connectivity challenges of a broken marketplace shaped by large monopoly service providers.

This 2020 report presents Illinois’ broadband plan, Connect Illinois, and its commitment to closing gaps and expanding opportunity. The plan outlines goals to provide basic access to high-speed internet and ensure longer term high-speed access, and strategies to help the state meet these goals.

A report by EducationSuperHighway highlights the progress towards getting schools in the U.S. connected to fiber infrastructure and the importance of connectivity in the classroom. It provides recommendations to states to maintain a strong E-rate program, catalyze direct action, and upgrade state networks.

This resource provides an actionable roadmap for improving access to affordable and reliable broadband services for businesses in support of economic development in New Mexico. It evaluates the current broadband infrastructure and identifies the range of State and local entities that would likely be involved in the implementation of new broadband facilities.

This document is intended to assist policymakers and library professionals to fully understand the importance of prioritizing bandwidth and internet access for today and the future. It describes how libraries currently use bandwidth to fulfill their mission, how that role is expanding and evolving, and how library professionals and policymakers can quantify the bandwidth libraries need to incubate opportunity and innovation.

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This resource estimates the cost of deploying high-speed fiber to all community anchor institutions that lack an adequate connection. The paper supports the idea that deploying high-capacity broadband “to and through” community anchor institutions to the surrounding community can be a cost-effective strategy to solve the digital divide for millions of Americans, especially those in rural areas.

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This resource explores whether public libraries have the potential to be the new hubs for telehealth services in urban and rural markets, to broaden the availability of health care. As anchor institutions, libraries can drive large numbers of people onto networks. The article discusses considerations that must be made if libraries plan to offer access to telehealth, such as how to schedule different types of health appointments and expanding remote capabilities.

This resource ardently argues for the support of community anchor institutions in comprehensive national strategies to promote broadband availability due to their provision of essential services such as education, information access, and telehealth. As anchor institutions can serve as points of stability and strength, they can be critical in helping America navigate its broadband future.

This resource provides four steps to increase E-Rate connectivity and competition. Empowering schools and libraries to take advantage of competition helps drive down the cost of connectivity and the E-Rate program provides the discounts to make broadband internet access more affordable.

This blog offers seven ways for governments to tackle the broadband affordability challenge in America, as cost is a primary reason people do not subscribe to broadband. The author offers such recommendations as spurring competition, protecting and strengthening Lifeline, helping subsidize programs for low-income people, and educating and protecting consumers.

A paper arguing that traditional job-training systems currently do not bridge digital skills gaps that middle-skill job seekers face. As the need for middle-skill jobs has doubled, efforts need to be made to integrate broadband into training for those positions, as both a delivery mechanism and a wraparound service.

A paper from October 2020 that reinforces the themes of the previous year’s Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s about the need for ubiquitous broadband across the United States. The author takes into account how the Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated the digital divide on geographic, racial, and class lines.