What's Our Vision of Digital Equity?

This is Digital Inclusion Week 2022, a time to raise awareness of solutions addressing home internet access, personal devices, and local technology training and support programs. The theme this year, Turning Our Moment into Movement, is so apt because, as expansive as our efforts are, it will take a sustained effort to close our digital divides. The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society is committed to working alongside the hundreds of other organizations across the United States that are advancing digital equity. As states, tribes and territories begin planning to use Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act support to connect everyone via high-speed internet access, one overarching requirement is that they each write their vision of digital equity. The exercise is a powerful opportunity to think some years down the line and envision how our lives, communities, economy, and society can be transformed through successful implementation of the Act. In recognition of the work states, tribes and territories have before them—as well as the role communities must play to inform their plans—the Benton Institute is launching a national dialogue to engage our community of advocates to contribute to a publication that outlines a collective vision of digital equity.

As a first phase of this process, we are inviting the digital equity community to join us on October 11th at 11am ET (REGISTRATION LINK) for a conversation and to provide input in a short, 10-question survey: https://www.menti.com/qj1oj3dij4

[Adrianne B. Furniss is the Executive Director of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Andrew Coy is the founder of Initial Velocity and executive director of the Digital Harbor Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.]


What's Our Vision of Digital Equity?