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For the First Time, All States will have a Plan to Address Digital Equity

MAY 30, 2024 | BLOG

Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month: A Q+A with Angela Thi Bennett

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APRIL 26, 2024 | BLOG

Building Digital Programming to Support Second Chances

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APRIL 16, 2023 | BLOG

Permitting Progress to Support Internet for All

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Internet For All is already changing lives. Learn more about how increasing access to high-speed Internet service is improving the lives of every day Americans across the country.

A Retired Veteran Returns to College

Sterling Williams Jr. was retired from the U.S. Airforce, bored, and looking for a fulfilling way to spend his time. “When you’re retired, there’s only a few things you can do: dig a garden, watch TV, cut the grass, or bowl, and I can’t [bowl] anymore,” said Williams, 62, a Sinton, Texas resident. But his niece suggested something else: going to college. Williams was intrigued but concerned about keeping a flexible schedule. Between picking his niece up from school and waiting for appointments at the Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic, the idea of commuting back and forth for classes seemed like a significant obstacle. Then he learned South Texas College would give him a laptop and hotspot to attend classes remotely.

Bilingual Digital Literacy Program Fosters Creativity

Interview is translated from Spanish

Ten-year-old Miguel is putting his new digital literacy skills to an unexpected use: writing stories about his need for a brother.

“It is boring only having sisters,” Miguel, who has four sisters, explained.

High-Speed Internet Improves Solar Panel Output on Tribal Lands

The Forest County Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin had been generating electricity to run its community center using solar panels for years—they just didn’t have an accurate way of tracking their energy usage.

Thanks to an Internet for All grant from NTIA, they now do.

Workforce Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 | BLOG

Connecting neighbors to high-speed Internet service in rural Texas

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AUGUST 16, 2023 | CASE STUDY

Charter’s Broadband Field Technician Apprenticeship Program

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JULY 19, 2023 | CASE STUDY

Verizon and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Training Program

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NTIA Features 40 Local Government’s Digital Equity and Inclusion Resources
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is facilitating extensive coordination and cooperation with key stakeholders to close the digital divide. Digital equity and inclusion activities are necessary to ensure that all individuals in the United States have access to, and the use of, affordable information and communication technologies. Localities representing historically excluded communities can and must make their voices heard to ensure that longstanding equity gaps are finally closed.
OMBI Identifies Barriers, Helps Close the Digital Divide
Marking one year of expanding high-speed Internet access in minority communities, NTIA’s Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives (OMBI) today released its inaugural Annual Report. This report, required by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA), details OMBI’s accomplishments over the office’s first year, identifies barriers to high-speed Internet access in minority communities, and outlines the office’s role in achieving digital equity across the United States.
Celebrating National Digital Inclusion Week and Efforts to Close the Digital Divide
The Internet is an essential communications tool that enables access to work, education, healthcare, and justice. Once a luxury, access to affordable, reliable, high-speed Internet is now a necessity. Despite its importance, millions of people in America cannot afford Internet service. Millions have no Internet access at all. And many who do, still face slow connection speeds and inadequate service.
New Analysis Shows Offline Households Are Willing to Pay $10-a-Month on Average for Home Internet Service, Though Three in Four Say Any Cost is Too Much
Affordability is a core part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All initiative. We know that access to an Internet connection isn’t true access unless everyone can afford that connection. During Digital Inclusion Week, we are analyzing NTIA’s Internet Use Survey data that highlight disparities in Internet adoption. Our previous blog discussed some of the barriers facing the 24 million households that do not use the Internet at home.
Switched Off: Why Are One in Five U.S. Households Not Online?
Internet access means access to education, healthcare, jobs, and entertainment. It’s essential to full participation in our modern economy. Still, NTIA data show that about one in five U.S. households are not connected to the Internet at home. President Biden’s Internet for All initiative is working to connect everyone in America to affordable, reliable high-speed Internet. With NTIA spearheading the initiative, we know it’s important to make data-driven solutions and assess who is not online and what barriers are keeping them unconnected.