This 2020 report and action plan was created to gather data and input to inform state and federal policymakers about how to optimize the use of telehealth. The Covid-19 pandemic showed the importance of investing in internet infrastructure to enable access to telehealth. This report argues that the digital divide has become a "digital cliff" where residents fall into deeper poverty and greater isolation. It focuses on the status of telehealth in California, gaps and barriers to optimizing telehealth, and the development of an action plan to advance telehealth policy and funding.

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An August 2020 news story about several digital inclusion initiatives in Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on a plan to double the amount of free Wi-Fi in the Russell neighborhood through the addition of approximately 30 access points. The project is partially made possible through $400,000 Choice Neighborhood Implementation grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ essay from the 2021 State of Black America advocates for broadband access as a civil right. Starks recognizes that the digital divide disproportionally affects Black Americans, thereby limiting economic opportunity and excluding them from pandemic-driven necessities like remote learning and telehealth.

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Part 1 of the Nokia Today podcast in which Brian Hendricks, Blair Levin, and Edward Smith II discuss the National Urban League’s Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity & Inclusion, and provide an update on the 2010 National Broadband Plan.

Part 2 of the Nokia Today podcast in which Brian Hendricks, Blair Levin, and Edward Smith II discuss the National Urban League’s Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity & Inclusion, and provide an update on the 2010 National Broadband Plan.

This episode of The Divide podcast features Blair Levin and Clint Odom discussing the goals of the National Urban League’s Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity & Inclusion and how the NUL and other organizations are collaborating to advance their agenda at the federal level.  

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Published in 2021, this resource is the National Urban League’s plan to close the digital divide. The plan identifies five digital gaps—availability, adoption, affordability, access to economic opportunity, and utilization—that disproportionately affect communities of color and cites four goals to close those gaps.

This 82-minute video discusses the importance of digital equity and how to build strategies and opportunities for advancing broadband with residents of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

An article that reviews the NTIA’s Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment Program, which allocates $42.45 billion for last-mile broadband development. Among the topics discussed are the role of the states, the matching requirement, the challenge process, and the changes made to the FCC’s broadband mapping initiative.

Published in March 2016, this report looks at data from the National Broadband Map to examine the broadband speeds in health care facilities in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties across the United States. The study found that 55 percent of facilities in metro areas had download speeds of more than 50 Mbps, compared with 12 percent of nonmetro facilities.

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The Nevada State Broadband Connectivity Strategy is a strategic plan for Nevada to deploy additional broadband infrastructure and close the digital divide. The chief recommendations for reaching the state’s goal of universal broadband access focus on supporting disadvantaged communities, investing in infrastructure, and modernizing state government online services to better serve rural, low-income citizens.

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