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March 2022

How can the FCC deliver better broadband to rural health care providers?

Recent years have seen an explosion in demand for telehealth services, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, that has increased the bandwidth needs of rural health care providers. The Federal Communications Commission is proposing changes to its Rural Health Care Program rules that are designed to ensure that rural healthcare providers receive the funding necessary to access broadband and telecommunications services to provide vital healthcare services.

Weekly Digest

How can the FCC deliver better broadband to rural health care providers?

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Friday, March 4, 2022

Expanding Access To Create Connected Communities in Orchard Knob, Tennessee

A new program in Chattanooga (TN)’s Orchard Knob neighborhood will expand access to internet connectivity - as well as digital technology and services - to improve residents’ health and quality of life. The pilot program, which aims to reach 1,000 residents, will be funded through a more than $600,000 grant from TVA’s Connected Communities grant program.

Special Report: Toward an Equitable Digital Future

Armed with new tools, funding, partnerships, data, and social awareness, many groups, including libraries, see that a more equitable digital future is within reach. In this special report, you’ll find articles on:

Will Dreams for Equality Be Deferred by Gaps in Technology?

This Black History Month, it is impossible to ignore how economic disparities that have tormented Black and Brown Americans for centuries have also invited digital inequities into the most impoverished communities. Broadband funding is not enough. It is time for transformational broadband policies that support economic resilience in every household. At a time when the labor of Black and Brown Americans was still being used to build wealth from which they were systematically excluded, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was at the center of a movement to welcome all Americans into the U.S. economy.

South Bend, Indiana, hosts broadband conference with state and national partners

Between the American Rescue Plan Act and the possible Build Back Better legislation, there’s a lot of federal funding headed to states and cities for investments in broadband. Representatives from across the state and the country were in South Bend (IN) on March 3 to talk about how to best use that funding.

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