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This resource analyzes the housing-related financial strain felt by residents in Long Beach, California, and explores the intersection of housing and internet access in the community. It provides recommendations for improving internet access and adoption.
This case study describes the state of the digital divide in Mesa, Arizona. It highlights partnerships, resources, and opportunities in the community to improve access to and adoption of broadband.
This resource explores Albuquerque, New Mexico's initiatives to close the digital divide. The report highlights projects led by the public school system, the University of New Mexico, and the City, and describes broadband issues pertinent to the indigenous community.
This case study describes the state of the digital divide in Ohio and highlights innovative community broadband solutions. It also discusses the role of the state's Broadband Office in supporting community efforts.
This resource describes the state of broadband connectivity in Memphis, Tennessee, and highlights local initiatives to bridge the digital divide. It also includes an interview with the City's Chief Information Officer.
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.
Participants in this video recommend that, as the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the necessity of high-speed broadband in homes and businesses to adapt to the socially distanced reality of the moment, state and local leaders should establish resilient infrastructure development goals. This conversation is about the need to establish governance frameworks that support investment strategies using innovative finance tools.
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 argues that efforts to close the digital divide in the Black rural South have been lacking, providing support showing that high-speed internet and broadband service are often not available or affordable in these areas, and that access to these services would demonstrably improve quality of life. It recommends the establishment of a permanent and meaningful broadband benefit program and a taskforce to prevent digital redlining, among other policies.
This 2020 plan outlines the state of Indiana's goals for expanding broadband access through engaging the business community, bridging the digital divide, and enhancing community development.
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.
This resource shares the experiences of four Native Nations—the Coeur d’Alene, the Nez Perce, the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe, and the St. Regis Mohawk—as they developed their own broadband networks. The case studies examine the unique challenges Native Nations confront as they seek to build internet infrastructure and address the digital divide while also retaining the Tribal sovereignty that is essential to their identity and heritage.
This resource describes the first Tribal Wireless Bootcamp, which sought to share strategies on building physical networks while building a social support network for this work. The piece describes the conception of the event and the event itself and discusses opportunities for future iterations of the Tribal Wireless Bootcamp.
In this blog, EducationSuperHighway discusses the importance and difficulty of upgrading bandwidth using fiber in rural school districts using the example of LLano Independent School District in Texas.
This testimony by Joanne Hovis, presented to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, argues that areas with high infrastructure costs per user fail to attract the private capital necessary to build networks. Further, it presents steps that state, local, and federal government can take to improve the economics of broadband deployment and incentivize investment.
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