Upcoming event

The FirstNet Authority will post a detailed agenda for the Combined Board and Board Committees Meeting on FirstNet.gov prior to the meeting. The agenda topics are subject to change.

Please note that the subjects discussed by the Board and Board Committees may involve commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential, or other legal matters affecting the FirstNet Authority. As such, the Board may, by majority vote, close the meeting only for the time necessary to preserve the confidentiality of such information.

The county role is pivotal to deploying high-speed internet. Join us for the second installment in the Broadband Boot Camp for Counties series to discover why counties play an essential role as partners, data aggregators, and organizers in the deployment of high-speed internet that is accessible and affordable for all.

This Boot Camp webinar series is provided free of charge. Registration is reserved exclusively for NACo members. 

Digitunity, in partnership with Visible Network Labs (VNL), distributed a survey to nonprofit organizations, governments, businesses, and other organizations in 10 cities across the US to visualize relationships across sectors and create opportunities for partnerships to achieve digital equity. The effort resulted in Network maps for each of the metro areas.

To register, please click on one or more of the links below:

An exclusive event for NRECA Broadband participating cooperatives

At the NRECA Broadband Leadership Summit, participating cooperatives come together to explore the challenges and opportunities of broadband deployment and to help shape the future of broadband in rural America.

INFORMED brings together key leaders and experts to engage around the biggest questions at the intersection of technology, media, and democracy.

Presented by Knight Foundation, the gathering will be an important opportunity for policymakers, researchers and the private sector to discuss the latest trends and research in this emerging field, while strengthening relationships that lead to more informed policy in the public interest.

The State of the Net Conference Series is hosted by the Internet Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and policymakers about the potential of a decentralized global Internet to promote communications, commerce and democracy. IEF works closely with leaders on Capitol Hill and in the private sector to host the most important debates in Internet policy.

The Office of Broadband Development continues to develop strategies to implement Governor Parson’s historic plans of investing ARPA funding to increase broadband internet access, adoption, and assistance statewide.

Institutions, including schools, hospitals, and governments, have a duty to make their services universally accessible. But because the digital divide continues to impact communities across the country, they can't fully integrate internet-based technologies into their services because doing so would effectively deny service to people who cannot access the internet. As a result, these essential services can't leverage the benefits of technology to make their services more effective or efficient – and that impacts everyone, even the fully connected.

The Decade of Digital Inclusion convenes leading visionaries in technology, business, policy, and digital inclusion to help build pathways to digital equity by 2030. Through timely panel discussions and keynotes featuring leading visionaries, this event seeks to generate concrete solutions to the complex issue of digital inequality.

In addition to a lively virtual symposium, we will honor 2022 Marconi Fellow Siavash Alamouti, a serial entrepreneur and wireless innovator, at an in-person formal awards gala.

During the height of the pandemic and now in this present time of variants, policymakers, public interest groups, researchers, and citizens have been preoccupied with the lack of connectivity in the United States. Conversely, they have been at pains to ensure that everyone in the country has access to high speed, affordable internet (“broadband”). At the highest levels of power, this push for connection resulted in the passage of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).