What skills, backgrounds, and competencies does a team need to close the digital divide and build a better broadband future? How can your team ensure that federal funding is adequately allocated to your state and local government offices? This blog post is a consolidated resource guide on the top positions necessary for building out a state or local broadband office, with examples of job descriptions and responsibilities.

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This article suggests eight steps the National Telecommunications and Information Administration should take to make the broadband provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act a success. Those steps include helping states ramp up their broadband offices, hiring personnel skilled in federal broadband grants, and improving coordination between the agencies that support broadband deployment.

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This fact sheet looks at the most successful statewide broadband programs and finds that they tend to contain the same three components: A state agency devoted to broadband, planning and technical assistance, and competitive grant programs.

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