The National Tribal Broadband Strategy proposes a roadmap for federal action and investment in broadband access and adoption for Tribal communities. It proposes specific activities that the federal government can undertake within the categories of coordination, data, network infrastructure, funding, permitting, broadband adoption, and economic development.

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Published in September 2019, this report discusses historical barriers that Tribes face when attempting to access spectrum resources and efforts by the FCC to support Tribal access to spectrum.

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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.

This resource provides an overview of broadband access for Native communities, including disparities in fixed and wireless, barriers to access, and strategies for addressing these disparities.

This report provides a summary of the policy recommendations that resulted from the 2019 Indigenous Connectivity Summit. The policy recommendations address barriers and opportunities related to Tribal broadband.

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

This research uses federal broadband data to analyze the status of broadband competition throughout the U.S.

This blog from June 2020 argues for the creation of a broadband competition policy agenda and details how governments can specifically encourage competition. The author recommends five methods: focus federal dollars on higher speeds than 25/3 Mbps, encourage concepts like open-access and municipal experimentation, allow people living in multi-tenant buildings to choose providers, empower community institutions to allow private ISPs to use their buildings to branch out into neighborhoods, and gather pricing data to help consumers make better choices.

This tool allows users to explore data on E-rate, competitive pricing for internet access per school district, graphs of statewide trends, and comparisons of state progress toward connectivity goals.

This tool is a partnership between US Ignite and the City of Portland to provide small businesses with a free, accessible open-source tool that uses city and federal data combined with real-time data from sensors, demographic data, and traffic data so the businesses can make informed decisions about choosing their locations. The tool can deliver significant value to the development community, allow local policies to incentivize development decisions, and enhance recovery for the community.

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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Pew Charitable Trust describes legislative actions taken in 2019 by states focusing on three key areas for expanding broadband access: continuing to establish governance and funding structures; clarifying who can provide broadband; and addressing emerging digital issues and opportunities.

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 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.