Events

Digital Opportunities: Growing Connections Across North Carolina

June 4, 2024
9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m

BAND-NC, with support from The Dogwood Health Trust, invites digital inclusion partners from around North Carolina to the Digital Opportunities Gathering on June 4, 2024, at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, NC. 

The Digital Opportunities Gathering is a celebration of the completion of Dogwood Health Trust planning grants and the beginning of regular statewide gatherings on digital inclusion. To continue to build and sustain strong digital equity ecosystems across North Carolina, practitioners, funders, and community members need to come together to share knowledge, best practices and innovative solutions to obstacles.

Digital Opportunities Agenda:

9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• DHT Welcome and Western Plan Celebration
• Working with Foundations to Fund Digital Inclusion Efforts
• Rural Broadband Challenges and Opportunities
• Breakout Sessions:
  • Telehealth: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward
  • Engaging Across Sectors for Digital Inclusion Collaboration
  • Implementing Digital Skills Programming
• Starting and Sustaining Projects
• Fireside Chat:  Building a Robust Digital Inclusion Ecosystem

5 – 7 p.m.

• Faith & Connection dinner: Exploring opportunities for rural faith communities to further digital equity

Thank you to the following organizations for joining our Digital Opportunities Gathering agenda:

AMY Regional Libraries, CareNet Counseling, Center for Digital Equity, Center for Rural Health Innovation, Connect Humanity, Cooperative Extension, Dogwood Health Trust, E2D, High Country COG, Hispanic Foundation, Land-of-Sky Regional Council, NCCCS Digital Navigator Project, NCDIT Office of Digital Equity & Literacy, NCTNA, NDIA, Office of Rural Health HIIT Team, Our Journey, Per Scholas, Rural Center, Rural LISC, SECU Foundation, and Through the Trees

This free event will be held in-person. Travel scholarships are available for DHT grantees.

Location:
Blue Ridge Community College, Henderson County Campus
Blue Ridge Conference Hall
Technology Education and Development Center
49 East Campus Drive
Flat Rock, NC 28731