A group of broadband enthusiasts on Friday urged a new national broadband plan and that the nation act on addressing issues of digital equity. “The time for action is now,” said Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund, which co-hosted the virtual forum […]
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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 […]
“We are grateful to Frontier Communications and the California Emerging Technology Fund for the generous donation of 100 Chromebooks,” said Deborah Padilla, director of Secondary Education and Curriculum. “Providing online access to all students in the community has been a challenge; yet the generosity of […]
It would take the president of the United States saying, “we need to get everyone online” in order for the nation – and for California – to reach its digital inclusion goals. The was the message that Sunne Wright McPeak, president and CEO of the California […]
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 [...]
The California Department of Education has worked closely with technology companies to make available more than 500,000 more computing devices for California students in need, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced. “We cannot stop until we know we have leveled the playing field for every […]
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 […]
We have all seen the images and heard stories: students without Internet access sitting in parks, parking lots, or fast food restaurants to use public Wi-Fi to do homework. COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders illuminated how essential it is to be connected to the Internet for education, […]