Alabama’s Broadband Model for the Nation
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
January 2025
Trump tech agenda begins with $500 Billion private AI plan and cuts to regulation (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:28Tech companies want teens to use their apps. Pinterest says not in school. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:28OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:27
Op-ed
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What to expect now that Brendan Carr is FCC chief
President Donald Trump’s second inauguration came and went, and that means Brendan Carr has officially taken the reins at the Federal Communications Commission. Much of Carr’s telecommunications policy agenda has already been laid out, featuring deregulation galore. Whether tighter regulations on the state front could damper that game plan is tough to say.
BEAD Needs All Technologies to Succeed
The $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program faces serious hurdles in its goal to “make sure that every American has access to reliable, affordable, high-speed Internet.” For one, traditional broadband is capital intensive, requiring large initial investments to deploy infrastructure. The theory behind BEAD was that it would resolve this issue through a massive one-time lump-sum expenditure to deploy broadband infrastructure to every American. However, we are now three years removed from when BEAD legisl
Two titans explain why Silicon Valley veered right
The jarring prominence of tech CEOs at President Donald Trump’s inauguration—positioned, as many noted, in front of Trump’s Cabinet picks—represents a massive sea change in American business and its cultural politics. The tech world’s turn to the right post-election has captivated anyone who watched these companies serve as a GOP punching bag for the past several years. There are plenty of good business reasons for any billionaire to want
FCC FY 2024 Annual Performance Report
On January 17 the Federal Communications Commission released its Annual Performance Report for 2024. The report highlights the advances the agency made in 2024 towards advancing goals such as:
- Pursuing policies to help bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to 100 percent of the country.
- Advancing equity.
- Empowering consumers.
- Enhancing public safety and national security.
- Advancing America's global competitiveness.
- Fostering operational excellence.
At the Denver Public Library, People Skills are the Most Important Quality When Choosing Digital Navigators
Following up on the release of The Human Infrastructure of Broadband: Looking Back, Looking Around, and Looking Ahead, we are providing examples of core, complementary, and coalition models for digital equity work. With 27 locations, the Denver Public Library (DPL) is an innovative hub for digital equity throughout the city, serving more than 700,000 residents. The library provides more than 1,400 public internet computers that receive more than 250,000 uses annually, as well as free public Wi-Fi.