This checklist offers best practices for various local government leaders (including policy leaders, planners, regulators, and more) to achieve digital equity in their communities through their work.

This resource defines equity and explores how cities can align technology programs with equity goals. It also includes best practices and a resource list for communities seeking to create equitable communities through technology.

This guidebook offers strategies and recommendations for developing digital inclusion programs that address affordable internet access, affordable devices, digital literacy training, technology support, and applications and content development.

In this blog, the National Governors Association lists quotes from the 2021 State of the State addresses of many governors which highlight broadband infrastructure and remote learning and telemedicine technologies as critical to closing equity gaps and responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. It also lists actions taken by some governors to launch new broadband initiatives and program expansions in 2021.

The 2021 Wisconsin State Broadband Plan succinctly lists the goals and strategies the Public Service Commission has for broadband in the State. It aims to make high-performance broadband in Wisconsin more accessible, resilient, competitive, and affordable through strategies like data gathering, infrastructure investments, partnership and capacity building, and a digital equity and inclusion framework.

This State Broadband Plan from West Virginia, published in 2019, reviews activities to date of the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council and sets the Council's goals for facilitating broadband deployment while outlining numerous strategies to meet those goals.

This 2020 State Broadband Office report from Washington defines the 2024-2028 state broadband goals of high speed access for all by 2024 and 150/150 Mbps symmetrical speeds by 2028 and makes recommendations for how to meet these goals. It also provides an overview of the current state of broadband in Washington and provides examples of successful past initiatives.

This playbook from US Ignite shares the experiences and lessons from community leaders and on-profit partners as discussed during the Smart City Connectivity workshop on 2019. Leaders discuss how to fit connectivity into the context of community planning, how to partner with the private sector, and developing pathways for scalable projects.

This resource is a collection of lessons gathered from US Ignite's 2018 workshop on deploying wireless networking equipment, small cell sites, public Wi-Fi, and Internet of Things sensors. The playbook combines insights from local government, industry, and nonprofit organizations.

This guide to community engagement created by US Ignite emphasizes the importance of empowering and collaborating with the public in solving civic problems. The document focuses on three aspects of successful community engagement: understanding, planning, and operationalizing, and ensuring that efforts are meaningful. It also includes links to resources for communities.

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This press release tells of affordable high-speed internet finally being accessible to 225 households in Lexington Village, an apartment complex in Cleveland. Funding for the project came from US Ignite and the National Science Foundation.

This brief from the Urban Institute is part of a larger project exploring how innovative policies and programs from abroad can inform state and local efforts in the US to advance an inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Welsh program identified during the global search, Superfast Cymru, has the potential to inform U.S. policymakers seeking to close access gaps.

This interview with Tim Lucas of SaverLife focuses on how digital inclusion can help low-to-moderate-income Americans reach financial stability. Lucas discusses how the influx of finance-based technology, including online banking and smartphone apps that answer questions about personal finances, can help people save money.

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An interview with Ken Granderson of BlackFacts.com, who is working to close the digital divide by creating tech products for the Black community in the hopes that it will inspire younger generations of people of color to choose the technology world as a career.

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Professor Ana Garcia Armada offers an introduction to multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology. She describes how MIMO has been used to increase cellular capacity in high-traffic networks and developed markets but can also serve as a cheaper alternative to fiber in improving access to remote areas.

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