Internet access is something that many took for granted, until the pandemic. Living through COVID-19 has laid bare the unaddressed digital inequities that are impacting millions of lives. The digital divide is becoming a digital chasm: limited or no access to affordable high-speed internet is […]
Author: Nadine Hugg
CETF President and CEO Sunne Wright McPeak urges business leaders and Internet Service Providers to seek sincere public-private partnerships to close the Digital Divide in President Biden’s first term.
For many of us, 2020 will be marked in our collective memory as the year of shelter-in-place, social distancing, and video conferences from home for work, school, and doctor visits. But for the 22 percent of Californian households living without high-speed Internet service at home, […]
CETF Announces Opportunity to Sign the Digital Equity Bill of Rights. Read the 10 CETF Digital Equity Bill of Rights. CETF Board of Directors in November adopted these principles to advance the Quest for Digital Equity and foster consensus among Digital Champions. To sign on, […]
CETF announces the Quest for Digital Equity Conversations, timely interviews that capture the robust exchange of ideas among diverse stakeholders—elected officials and policymakers, regional and local civic leaders, community-based organizations (CBOs), and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—to collectively address the challenges associated with the many facets […]
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the closing of schools and businesses for several months, exposing the deep Digital Divide facing many of our parents, students in k-12 and those in community colleges. El Concilio of San Mateo County and Hagar Services Coalition are partnering [...]
Watch CETF President and CEO Sunne Wright McPeak during a live video discussion with BroadbandBreakfast Editor and Publisher Drew Clark. Learn how Sunne Wright McPeak has successfully led collaboration and strategies with lawmakers, regulators, corporations, industry leaders, civic groups and, community-based organizations to close the […]
Two-hundred sixth-graders received their own Chromebooks last week from an organization seeking to breach the digital divide. But for many Del Norte students, that divide still exists due to a global shortage in devices starting at the raw material phase, according to Ryan Bahten, Del […]
The Del Norte Unified School District announced last week that it has accepted a donation of 200 number Chromebooks from Frontier Communications that will be issued to students who lack devices at home so they may participate in distance learning. “We are so grateful to […]
The most digitally-disadvantaged populations cannot wait any longer for ubiquitous broadband in California. CETF Board Member and former State Senator Martha M. Escutia, who serves as Vice President of Government Relations at USC, wrote an opinion piece in CalMatters laying out urgent policy prescriptions: Bridge […]