This resource guide from the California Emerging Technology Fund and the Center for a New Orange County is meant to help local and regional government leaders promote broadband deployment and adoption. It includes a sample policy aimed at local communities seeking to deploy broadband and close the digital divide.

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This briefing booklet from the California Emerging Technology Fund presents a detailed overview of 5G and a collection of resources about advanced networks.

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FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ essay from the 2021 State of Black America advocates for broadband access as a civil right. Starks recognizes that the digital divide disproportionally affects Black Americans, thereby limiting economic opportunity and excluding them from pandemic-driven necessities like remote learning and telehealth.

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A brief overview of the National Urban League’s plan to close the digital divide. The plan identifies five digital gaps—availability, adoption, affordability, access to economic opportunity, and utilization—that disproportionately affect communities of color and cites four goals to close those gaps.

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Part 2 of the Nokia Today podcast in which Brian Hendricks, Blair Levin, and Edward Smith II discuss the National Urban League’s Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity & Inclusion, and provide an update on the 2010 National Broadband Plan.

This episode of The Divide podcast features Blair Levin and Clint Odom discussing the goals of the National Urban League’s Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity & Inclusion and how the NUL and other organizations are collaborating to advance their agenda at the federal level.  

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Published in 2021, this resource is the National Urban League’s plan to close the digital divide. The plan identifies five digital gaps—availability, adoption, affordability, access to economic opportunity, and utilization—that disproportionately affect communities of color and cites four goals to close those gaps.

This report outlines a plan for California’s San Joaquin Valley to achieve the goal of broadband availability in 98 percent of its households. The plan includes using State and federal funds to build infrastructure, deploying a hybrid fiber-wireless model, and using water districts for easements and rights-of-way.

Valley Vision, in partnership with the California Emerging Technology Fund, reports on the unserved households in the Sacramento metropolitan area and evaluates the estimated costs of reaching the preferred scenario of broadband availability in 98 percent of the region’s households.

This report outlines the preferred scenario in helping to achieve the goal of attaining 98 percent broadband deployment in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties in California. The report includes maps identifying unserved areas; describes the public assets, programs, permits, and existing infrastructure needed for deployment; and recommends a path forward.

This resource guide is a starting point for local and regional governmental leaders across California who are looking to advance access, deployment, and adoption of broadband. The guide includes an overview of select broadband policies, case studies including 5G investments, and a list of additional resources from broadband agencies.

This analysis from Heartland Forward examines the 2021 IIJA and comes up with four key principles—stressing public investments, community involvement, regulations and standards, and economic growth—designed to ensure the money is being spent efficiently and in service of the communities the law is intended to help.

This resource in intended to help support the Southern Border Broadband Consortium’s mission of identifying broadband connectivity issues in Imperial and San Diego Counties. It includes strategic, step-by-step plans—along with mapping and analytics—to help the consortium achieve its goal of 98 percent broadband deployment.

The FCC’s 2020 Broadband Deployment Report provides an update on the state of access to broadband in the United States. The report notes that, despite the findings that more people are gaining access to broadband each year, the work in closing the digital divide is not complete.

A white paper explaining how the growth of the Internet of Things will impact the electricity grid. However, policymakers and energy industry stakeholders cannot continue to assume that everybody has internet access, because that mindset will result in real-consequences consequences.