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 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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In this episode of the After the Fact podcast, Kathryn de Wit discusses the challenges facing those without access to broadband internet during the Covid-19 pandemic, and what some states and communities are doing to bridge connectivity gaps.

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 resource from Broadband USA, published in 2016, presents planning steps necessary to create a community broadband roadmap. The goal of the resource is to help communities expand broadband access locally to create jobs, improve educational opportunities, promote economic development, spur private investment, and facilitate the delivery of essential social services.

This resource serves as a guide for local governments looking to increase broadband investment in their communities. It outlines various aspects of broadband investment, gives examples of successful community actions, and provides a checklist of steps that local leaders can take to support broadband investment.

This resource includes a snapshot of federal broadband data in each state or territory, background on state data-collection initiatives, and local insights that help illustrate why persistent data inaccuracies put unserved and underserved populations at a disadvantage and keep them locked out of funding opportunities.

This resource discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the educational digital divide. The authors urge the FCC to increase E-rate funding, and describe efforts in many locales to find effective and financially sustainable ways to extend connectivity to students who lack it and thereby close the nation’s destructive homework gap.

This resource reviews research on internet access in the Navajo Nation, revealing that many Navajo chapters lack affordable, accessible internet, and arguing that the federal government’s failure to connect people on tribal lands deprives entire tribes of opportunities for employment, healthcare, education, and economic growth in both the short and long term.

Maryland’s Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless and Cellular Service provides this report of recommendations to address broadband access in unserved and underserved areas of the state. Chief recommendations focus on implementing legislation that allows electric utility easements and rights-of-way to be used for broadband, providing support for additional resources, and working with the state's congressional delegation to increase federal grant funding or matching funds.

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 episode of The Divide podcast provides perspective on Project Overcome from Mari Silbey, director of partnerships and outreach at US Ignite, as well as Alex Wyglinski and Casey Canfield, engineering professors and co-leads on a broadband deployment project in Clinton County, Missouri. Project Overcome funds novel broadband projects.

This resource from the Kansas Office of Rural Prosperity (ORP) outlines efforts the ORP has undertaken to address rural infrastructure in unserved and underserved parts of the state, and makes a case for increasing efforts to provide broadband infrastructure.

In this testimony, Joanne Hovis, president of CTC Technology & Energy, makes the case before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that broadband infrastructure should be included in any infrastructure investment program.

This report explains the City and County of San Francisco's (City) plans to address the need for essential high‐speed, affordable broadband services in the City through a ubiquitous fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.