The Connection Between Affordability and Internet Adoption in Oregon
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
August 2024
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Ensuring Access to Quality Communications for Incarcerated People: Options for Advocates and State Legislators
This report offers options for advocates to make sure that incarcerated people and their families receive good quality communications whether they pay for communications or not. Recommended measures represent a holistic strategy to dismantle the barriers of silence and distance. The proposed legal frameworks and standards are designed as enforceable rights to guarantee that communication—a lifeline for those incarcerated—remains unbroken and clear.
Join NTIA's Digital Equity Director Angela Bennett, Tribal Leaders, Elected Officials, and Broadband Advocates for a Community Conversation on Creating Digital Opportunities at the Missoula Public Library in Missoula, Montana.
This conversation will bring together Tribal leaders, educators, telehealth advocates, and community-based non-profits to discuss new funding opportunities for digital inclusion and best practices for initiatives aimed at improving economic opportunities for Tribal and rural residents.
States, Tribes, and Territories are working to make #InternetforAll a reality nationwide. NTIA's Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program will invest nearly $1 billion via nonprofits, community anchor institutions, local educational agencies, workforce development organizations, and other entities to promote digital inclusion for low-income households, aging populations, incarcerated individuals, veterans, people with disabilities, people with language barriers, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural residents.