This fact sheet outlines the key strategies of Pew's Broadband Access Initiative: raising minimum speeds, ensuring long-term funding, improving accountability, addressing affordability, and defining a role for each level of government.

This resource discusses challenges and opportunities regarding broadband adoption in Huntsville, Alabama. It highlights state policy developments and recent partnerships that have sought to address broadband adoption and also offers a set of recommendations to improve adoption.

This resource discusses challenges and opportunities regarding broadband adoption in Detroit, Michigan. It highlights local efforts to increase broadband access and offers a set of recommendations to improve adoption locally.

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 blog discusses various issues surrounding broadband connection in Native Nations, complete with examples. It argues that there is no singular prescriptive fix that will connect all Native Nations, but rather federal, state, and local governments must work with Native Nations to achieve broadband connectivity that fits their respective communities, with Indigenous people directly involved in the creation and implementation of programs designed to create solutions to meet their unique needs.

This article reviews research on internet access in West Virginia, revealing that many West Virginians living in rural communities do not have access to affordable, quality internet service that would allow them to virtually meet with a doctor, apply for unemployment benefits, access online learning resources, or even stay informed on the public health crisis.

This resource describes the state of Superior, Wisconsin's plans to develop an open access fiber network that would reach every resident. The project's main objectives are to reduce the cost of broadband for residents and businesses and to improve network speed and reliability.

In this blog, EducationSuperHighway provides three tips for making technology plans for the classroom: set intentional goals, know your options, and bring community members to the table.

This report is the third in a series about the digital divide for students and teachers. It aims to provide a more granular understanding of the digital divide for students amid distance learning and the pandemic and offers a set of policy recommendations at the federal, state, and local levels to permanently close the digital divide.

This resource from May 2021 discusses President Joe Biden's appointment of Vice President Harris to lead the broadband component of his infrastructure plan. The article acknowledges the two core issues that must be resolved for the broadband bill to pass: prioritizing expenditures for unserved areas and moving beyond temporary solutions to address the adoption problem for low-income families.

This resource from the Brookings Institution discusses the benefits and costs of broadband expansion, and the potential for significant economic impact that result from investment into broadband. It argues that while barriers and challenges to expansion exist, increased access and usage of broadband infrastructure in rural areas has the potential to increase property values, job and population growth, and business formation.

This resource is a video of a call between U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and community broadband advocates from Benton, Chicago, and Isanti Counties to discuss how the bipartisan infrastructure bill can help expand broadband to rural Minnesota communities.

An article that offers recommendations for a comprehensive, national broadband strategy to ensure everyone in America can access high-performance broadband as soon as possible. These recommendations highlight actions that can be taken by the Biden Administration, Congress, and the FCC.

This resource presents findings from studies that sought to gain a deeper understanding of the ability of low-income individuals to pay for home broadband connection. The findings show that those with a limited monthly budget had an acute understanding of the value of home broadband and, as such, prioritized other expenses.

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.