National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Federal Funding for Native Entities: Application Guidance for NEGP & TBCP 3
The Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program and the Native Entity Grant Program, designed to support Native Entities in implementing essential broadband adoption and usage programs, are open for application. Indian Tribes, Alaska Native entities, and Native Hawaiian organizations are eligible applicants for both programs.
FCC Changes Broadband Labels
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a Report and Order on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, changing some key elements of broadband consumer labels. The broadband consumer labels were mandated by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), requiring all internet service providers (ISPs) to adopt and display the labels by October 10, 2024.
How Hopkins Digital Access Initiative Met the Moment of Crisis
On Sunday, January 25, 2026, National Digital Inclusion Alliance Executive Director Angela Siefer received an email with the subject line “Help Needed in Minnesota.” By Monday morning, we were on a call with the leaders of the Hopkins Digital Access Initiative—Rebekah Crosby, Carolyn Leslie, and Beth Kivett—forging a new partnership to address urgent digital inclusion needs in Hopkins, a first-ring Minneapolis suburb, a community flooded with ICE and CPB agents.
National Digital Navigator Corps Program Evaluation Report
In February 2022, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance received a grant from Google.org to create the National Digital Navigator Corps, a pilot program intended to build and advance local digital inclusion work in rural and Indigenous communities and strengthen the digital navigator model in those contexts. NDIA supported Digital Navigator programs in 18 community-based organizations serving rural and Tribal communities across the United States while gathering lessons learned, identifying best practices, and developing replicable resources to share with others.
Advancing Digital Inclusion Program Sustainability Through Data Collection and Evaluation
The third installment in the National Digital Inclusion Alliance's (NDIA) three-part series on digital inclusion program sustainability focuses on data collection and evaluation practices. The brief, titled “Advancing Digital Inclusion Program Sustainability Through Data Collection and Evaluation,” outlines six best practices for program evaluation that all digital inclusion programs should consider.
Storytelling as a Sustainability Strategy for Digital Inclusion
In today’s digitally driven world, access to technology, connectivity, and digital skills has become a prerequisite for equitable participation in virtually every facet of life—education, employment, healthcare, and exercising civic rights. Yet, millions of individuals and communities remain excluded from these opportunities due to barriers to digital inclusion. Programs that expand broadband access, provide digital skills training, and distribute devices—are essential to closing this divide.
Fifty Billion Dollars, and Patients Who Can’t Log In
Fifty billion dollars is now flowing to states to transform rural healthcare. For communities that have endured decades of hospital closures, provider shortages, and dwindling options, that money is welcome and long overdue. But every dollar of it is assuming patients and their caregivers can navigate digital systems—and a lot of them can’t. The Rural Health Transformation Program, authorized under P.L. 119-21, is designed to modernize care delivery through telehealth expansion, remote monitoring, digital patient portals, and data-sharing infrastructure. These are good investments.
Best Practices for Ensuring Digital Inclusion Program Impact
The enduring challenge of sustainability is now more crucial than ever for digital inclusion programs. A new series of three briefs from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) highlights best practices in the foundations of sustainable programs: intentional community impact, diligent data collection and analysis, and mission-aligned storytelling.
The Digital Equity Act One Year Later
The loss of the Digital Equity Act impacted each of us differently. Some National Digital Inclusion Alliance affiliates had to scrap projects, others had to make hard staffing decisions and lay off staff, and some organizations have shuttered their doors. And yet, time and time again, our brilliant, amazing community of NDIA affiliates has demonstrated resilience and tenacity that humbles the NDIA team.