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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This resource from October 2019 provides a policy overview of the effect of federal spectrum management and allocation on Tribal communities. It explores the challenges that Tribes face in leveraging spectrum for economic and public use.

This report includes case studies from four Native Nations that created their own internet service providers. It includes a discussion of challenges to building internet infrastructure that are unique to Tribal communities, and includes best practices for Native Nations, lending institutions, and the federal government when it comes to Tribal connectivity.

This report summarizes the 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit and its key takeaways.

This report summarizes the 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit and its key takeaways.

This resource from NDIA details its digital inclusion policy priorities for 2021-2022, which it believes would make significant progress in advancing digital equity. The policy recommendations are to make broadband affordable for everyone in the United States, to fund and support community-based digital inclusion programs, fund and invest in progressive digital skills pathways, and increase accesses to devices for everyone.

This report provides a summary of the policy recommendations that resulted from the 2020 Indigenous Connectivity Summit. The policy recommendations address barriers and opportunities related to Tribal broadband.

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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 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 set of recommendations includes best practices for supporting inclusivity, community consultation, and engagement with Indigenous communities.

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 blog from the National Governors Association highlights actions taken by Governors and states to prioritize permanently closing the digital divide by harnessing federal and state dollars, making policy changes, and working closely with key stakeholders. The blog lists initiatives taken by Governors in many states.

This policy brief presents the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) rules for planning and construction targeted at closing the digital divide for low- and medium-income families.

This resource presents excerpts from a conversation between US Ignite Director of Community Development Lee Davenport and Gigi Sohn of the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy. Sohn provides an overview of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework Bill (BIF) and outlines key federal funding insights for smart communities and cities.

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.