A report exploring how FCC data fail to accurately or completely reflect broadband access on Tribal lands, and how this reality has implications, such as limiting Tribes' ability to access federal funding opportunities.

The Community Broadband Planning Playbook is a tool from North Carolina’s Department of Information Technology that provides guidance on expanding broadband access in communities. This playbook helps create incentives and favorable policies so that communities may build partnerships with providers and increase access.

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This resource from NDIA details its digital inclusion policy priorities for 2021-2022, which it believes would make significant progress in advancing digital equity. The policy recommendations are to make broadband affordable for everyone in the United States, to fund and support community-based digital inclusion programs, fund and invest in progressive digital skills pathways, and increase accesses to devices for everyone.

This report provides a summary of the policy recommendations that resulted from the 2020 Indigenous Connectivity Summit. The policy recommendations address barriers and opportunities related to Tribal broadband.

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Adopted in June 2008, this paper from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) provides an overview of a recommended national broadband strategy. The main principles are to immediately deploy advanced broadband networks, require high-capacity bandwidth in both directions for true broadband, use fiber-to-the-premises as the preferred option, and make high-capacity broadband connectivity affordable and accessible.

This resource reports on the state of broadband access, device use, and uses of the internet by Tribal communities on Tribal lands.

This resource describes the aspects of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that are related to broadband affordability.

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This set of recommendations includes best practices for supporting inclusivity, community consultation, and engagement with Indigenous communities.

This report discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a number of trends in broadband, leading to a significant wave of public-private collaboration.

This guidebook offers strategies and recommendations for developing digital inclusion programs that address affordable internet access, affordable devices, digital literacy training, technology support, and applications and content development.

The 2021 Wisconsin State Broadband Plan succinctly lists the goals and strategies the Public Service Commission has for broadband in the State. It aims to make high-performance broadband in Wisconsin more accessible, resilient, competitive, and affordable through strategies like data gathering, infrastructure investments, partnership and capacity building, and a digital equity and inclusion framework.

The Commonwealth Connect Plan, published in 2020 by the State of Virginia, explains how the State will work with local governments to identify gaps in coverage and develop plans to fill those gaps. It discusses current broadband availability in the State, non-state and local actors, initiatives undertaken by other states to increase broadband availability, what Virginia is currently doing, and recommendations for policies that would improve these efforts.

This 2015 report from the Rhode Island General Assembly discusses that while the State's broadband infrastructure is highly ranked, areas with no coverage still exist. The report makes recommendations on how to increase access to these underserved communities.

This article explains how the Emergency Broadband Benefit program was created to help Americans who cannot afford internet service get connected during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, an issue with the National Verifier database means that many people are still unable to enroll in the program.

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An article analyzing the digital divide between rural, urban, and suburban America, showing that rural adults remain less likely than suburban adults to have home broadband and less likely than urban adults to own a smartphone, tablet computer or traditional computer. The author puts forth potential reasons for these findings.