Connecting in Crisis: Digital Inclusion Information Exchange
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COVID-19 is exposing the digital divide in North Carolina, and its consequences for all of us. At a time when we need to be more connected than ever, students and adults who can’t connect, don’t have a computer or laptop or don’t know how to use them, work at an impossible disadvantage.
Digital Inclusion – creating opportunities for people to access affordable internet, computers, and laptops, and digital literacy – is more important than ever.
As an extension of our work on the ReCONNECT to Technological Opportunity Emerging Issues Forum and in response to COVID-19, IEI is creating a digital inclusion resource hub. This resource hub will provide the latest digital inclusion news and will highlight community solutions and promising practices from across the state and beyond. You will also find policy, and community responses to the digital divide in the wake of COVID-19.
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Community Solutions
Highlighting community solutions and promising practices from across the state and beyond.
Tips for Addressing the Digital Divide
Researchers from the Friday Institute for Educational innovation at North Carolina State University partnered on a two-year “homework gap” grant funded by the Institute of...
How is digital inclusion and connectivity important for your ministry?
Contributed by John Dempsey Parker, Institute for Emerging Issues, NC State University. Last month, the IEI Faith Team facilitated its latest round of Peer Network...
For the City of San Antonio, Digital Inclusion is a key piece of post-pandemic reconstruction
The City of San Antonio recently passed a nearly $191 million “COVID-19 Community Recovery and Resiliency Plan,” to support the city’s future as it emerges...
Digital Inclusion Resources
We have compiled a list of key resources to help communities, businesses, organizations, and individuals access important information during this time. Resources include maps of where to find free or low-cost internet service, toolkits to create a digital inclusion project or coalition, organizations providing free or low-cost devices, etc., as well as new research.
Federal and State Policy News
Check out Google’s Jess George on IEI’s First in Future Podcast
Podcast Summary: One of the most complicated challenges of the coronavirus has been the need for more broadband. It has been a challenge that the...
$40 Million for Virtual Learners, $32 million for the GREAT Grant
Governor Cooper shared that $40 million in state funding will go to North Carolina students who aren’t able to connect to consistent or affordable virtual...
Broadband Legislative Tracker
Public Knowledge, an organization that shapes policy on behalf of the public interest on issues related to open internet and access to affordable communications tools...
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Related News
Digital Inclusion: A Glossary
Contributed by Trishell Moore, IEI AmeriCorps VISTA What is the digital divide? Digital divide is the growing gap between those who have access to the...
Check out Google’s Jess George on IEI’s First in Future Podcast
Podcast Summary: One of the most complicated challenges of the coronavirus has been the need for more broadband. It has been a challenge that the...
It Takes a Village
As a parent of a new Junior in High School, things are not business as usual. I am currently working from home and he is...
BAND-NC
What’s it going to take to increase the percentage of people in each NC county – children and adults – who are able to use broadband to work, learn and play? Check out BAND-NC.