Upcoming event

This webinar focuses on NITA’s State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program and highlights the digital equity technical assistance resources developed by NTIA’s Technical Assistance and Digital Equity Teams.

Panelists

This webinar will provide an overview of the interactive map created to assist potential applications to the Realizing Opportunity with Broadband Infrastructure Networks (ROBIN) Program identify locations to be served with high-speed internet service through their applications.

This webinar will provide potential applicants to the Realizing Opportunity with Broadband Infrastructure Networks (ROBIN) Program with an overview of the online application portal used for the program and instructions on completing and submitting an application.

Colorado Digital Equity Committee meetings are virtual and open to any interested stakeholders. These meetings will provide a space for stakeholders – including individuals with lived experience – to share with one another and provide input on the State Digital Equity Plan. Meetings will take place every other month, on fourth Tuesdays, at 11 a.m.

Jan 24, 2023 11:00 AM
Mar 14, 2023 11:00 AM
May 23, 2023 11:00 AM
Jul 25, 2023 11:00 AM
Sep 26, 2023 11:00 AM

With the new year, the Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) is excited to launch the Broadband Ready Community Program. This program will create an opportunity for communities in Colorado to become “broadband ready” ahead of upcoming historic federal funding disbursement. Through the past year of stakeholder engagement, we have gathered that local communities could greatly benefit from a guided approach to understanding their broadband needs as they begin to plan long-term projects.

With the new year, the Colorado Broadband Office is excited to launch the Broadband Ready Community Program. This program will create an opportunity for communities in Colorado to become “broadband ready” ahead of upcoming historic federal funding disbursement. Through the past year of stakeholder engagement, we have gathered that local communities could greatly benefit from a guided approach to understanding their broadband needs as they begin to plan long-term projects.

In this webinar, we will explore why and how the nation's local, state and national DEI leaders across key inclusion dimensions (financial, digital, educational, economic, health, etc.) and sectors (federal, state, nonprofit and private) can and should engage with their State's digital equity planning leaders to help design, implement, formatively assess their State's plan for tapping $1 billion over four years in USDOC funding for digital equity in support of economic inclusion.

A strong broadband ecosystem is integral to equipping society for the digital age. But understanding the actual state of broadband in the United States is deceptively complex. Overlapping terminology, contradictory data sources, and disagreements over how to interpret them contribute to an ongoing debate over what should be hard facts: the number of people in the United States that have connectivity at home, whether prices in the U.S. are high or low, and what even counts as a broadband connection. It’s hard to solve a problem when we don’t even agree on where the problem areas are.

Congress has recently made some much-anticipated progress toward advancing a bipartisan privacy bill. The current compromise, the American Data Protection and Privacy Act (ADPPA), still has a long way to go before becoming law, but it represents considerable efforts from both sides of the aisle to come to a consensus on divisive issues that have sunk previous bills. If the ADPPA or similar legislation passes, it would finally provide the United States with a single, comprehensive data privacy law that protects all Americans and simplifies compliance for businesses.