This resource presents a master dataset of broadband coverage in New York State. The tool can help reach the eventual goal of closing the digital divide in New York by providing accurate data of unserved and underserved locations. The resulting map uses a variety of supervised learning models to understand the relationship between demographics and broadband connectivity.

This report from 2019 explains how more than 800,000 people in Pennsylvania, many of whom are in rural areas of the State, do not have adequate access to broadband. The report documents the difficulties in trying to close the digital divide in the State and creates a methodology—using a combination of old and new tactics—that can be used as a best practice for addressing digital divide issues.

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This May 2019 report outlines the challenges to increasing high-speed broadband access throughout the State's rural areas. It discusses some of the methods South Dakota will use to work towards its goal of increasing the availability of 25/3 Mbps speeds, including business-friendly regulatory practices, allocation of state resources, and public-private partnerships.

This fact sheet charts Pew Research Center’s documenting of internet growth and distribution since 2000. The graphs explore internet usage by adults and various demographics such as race, gender, and income; home broadband adoption; and smartphone dependency.

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In this resource, Ookla introduces new technology that allows ISPs and MNOs to gain insights into their customers' video streaming experience.

In this resource, Ookla provides data on internet availability on Tribal lands, visualizing how these fall behind U.S. averages, and arguing that internet access is a vital connector between places and cultures.

The Digital Nation Data Explorer tool from NTIA enables users to easily track metrics about computer and Internet use over time in America. Users may select a metric of interest from the drop-down menu and the map will adapt to reflect the data. This tool offers both a default map mode which depicts percentages by state, along with a chart mode that allows metrics to be broken down by demographics.

The National Broadband Availability Map from the U.S. Department of Commerce and NTIA uses several data sources to show information on broadband availability in the United States. Users can select different layers to view on the map, such as "fixed broadband services at 25/3 Mbps" or "Minority Serving Institutions."

This report assesses the current status of broadband availability in North Carolina and offers strategies to achieve universal access. The chief recommendations focus on incentivizing investment in next generation, future-proof infrastructure and reducing barriers to deployment, creating community-based adoption and use programs, closing the "homework gap," facilitating integration of broadband into economic development strategies, and leveraging the influence telehealth technologies have on household broadband adoption and use.

This report details the current status and future needs of broadband in New Hampshire, along with recommendations for regional planning. The chief recommendations focus on establishing a broadband authority and broadband council, eliminating barriers to broadband availability, encouraging competition to improve broadband affordability, coordinating and promoting training to increase adoption, and monitoring broadband availability and adoption.

This document from the state of Louisiana describes the mission, guiding principles, priority areas, and strategies of the state's Broadband for Everyone in Louisiana Commission (BEL). Priority areas include adoption, availability, data and mapping, and partnership development.

This resource argues that efforts to close the digital divide in the Black rural South have been lacking, providing support showing that high-speed internet and broadband service are often not available or affordable in these areas, and that access to these services would demonstrably improve quality of life. It recommends the establishment of a permanent and meaningful broadband benefit program and a taskforce to prevent digital redlining, among other policies.

Produced in March 2011, this strategic plan assesses Florida’s governmental broadband infrastructure service offerings; describes and analyzes internal and external models for providing broadband; reviews and evaluates future public sector broadband needs, with strategies for their implementation; identifies broadband availability and adoption barriers; and recommends methods to cost-efficiently optimize broadband use.

This survey and speed test tool is designed to gather data about the availability and speed of internet service, including to identify locations that lack such service. The results can be used to inform broadband planning efforts.

A white paper that provides data and analysis of the broadband availability gap across Iowa. The authors argue that broadband infrastructure is crucial for economic growth and competitiveness amongst Iowa businesses and communities and that communities lacking access to adequate broadband will struggle economically and be left behind socially.

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