The National Urban League's Approach to Digital Equity
Friday, April 16, 2021
April 2021
his event will be moderated by Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital, and Shawn Powers, Chief Strategy Officer for USAGM, and will focus on the rapid evolution of disinformation in the digital age, and how it is impacting democracy around the world.
Panelists
PETER POMERANTSEV
Author, “This is Not Propaganda – Adventures in the War Against Reality”
Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics
MARIA RESSA
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Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel's Response to Members of Congress Re: GAO Report on FCC High-Cost Programs
On April 9, 2021, Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote to various Members of Congress regarding the Oct 1, 2020 Government Accountability Office report entitled "FCC Should Enhance Performance Goals and Measures for Its Program to Support Broadband Service in High-Cost Areas". In their Sept 17, 2020 response to the draft report, the Managing Director and Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau noted that the FCC has adopted targeted performance goals and measures for specific high-cost support mechanisms.
Closing the Affordability Gap from the Beltway to the Heartland
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Is broadband infrastructure? Republicans used to think so