Prior to COVID-19, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimated at least 30 million Americans were on the wrong side of the digital divide, and nearly 12 million children are part of “the homework gap” because they do not have access to broadband internet at home. […]
Access to high-performance broadband is a civil rights issue according to Broadband for America Now, a report from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. An initial 2019 report, Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s, was scheduled to be updated this month to reflect […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]