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Digital Divide

Brookings Analyst Calls for Connecting Digital Underclass

Nicol Turner Lee supports new efforts to close the digital divide

Broadband Live

MDU Broadband Deployment Can be Expedited Through Existing Infrastructure

G.hn technology can utilize existing telephone wiring and coaxial cabling to deliver fiber-like speeds.

Broadband Live

As States Take Action Against TikTok, Major Privacy Legislation Seems Unlikely

Californians’ opposition to the ADPPA’s preemption provision may be the end of the comprehensive bipartisan privacy bill.

AEI

Twitter Takeover by Elon Musk Forces Conflict Over Free Speech on Social Networks

Transparency laws in Calif. and N.Y. are the ‘liberal’ counterpart to the ‘conservative’ speech laws in Texas and Florida.

Infrastructure

Senate Committee Witnesses Recommend Apprenticeship Programs in Schools for Broadband Workforce

Workforce funding for infrastructure expansion has been allocated under the infrastructure bill.

FCC

Mobile Technology Aided the Growth of Black Lives Matter, But Will Hashtag Outrage Lead to Change?

September 21, 2020 — In the United States, widespread public use of mobile phone cameras and social media has thrust the longstanding issue of police brutality against Black Americans into the national spotlight like never before. Delving deeply into the subject of how digital tools have contributed

Irish Data Protection Commission Asks Facebook to Stop Sending European Data to the United States

September 14, 2020 – The transatlantic relationship between the European Union and the United States has reached a critical point, as the countries’ data privacy policies continue to clash. On July 16, a legal decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union, Schrems II, moved to invalidate th

Digital Inclusion

Government Support Necessary to Bridge the Digital Divide, Say AT&T and Others

September 4, 2020 – Government support will be needed to bridge the digital divide, said US Telecom CEO Jonathan Spalter and Amy Hinojosa, CEO of the national Latina organization MANA speaking on Tuesday at an AT&T policy forum. Ed Gillespie, senior executive vice president of AT&T, further request

Broadband Breakfast

Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 — Public Input on Platform Algorithms

Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 — Public Input on Platform Algorithms: The Role of Transparency and Feedback in Information Technology This panel will consider what role governments have, or should have, in reacting to the power of tech platforms vis-à-vis their role in p

Brookings Panelists Emphasize Importance of Addressing Biases in Artificial Intelligence Technology

June 19, 2020 — “The potential for discrimination increases with each generation of technology,” said Nicol Turner Lee, a fellow at the Center for Technology Innovation, in a Friday webinar hosted by the Brookings Institution about the intersection of race, artificial intelligence and structural ine

Democratization

Panelists at Tech Event Hope that Trump Administration Will Rally to Cause of Global Internet Freedom

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2017 – Internet freedom has declined worldwide for six consecutive years, said Stuart Brotman, a nonresident fellow at the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, citing Freedom House at a panel Wednesday. The panel about global internet freedom under the

Broadband Mapping and Data

Cable and Telecom Providers Warm to Broadband Measurement, Speak at Broadband Breakfast Club

WASHINGTON, Thursday, September 20th, 2012 – The internet policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com held its September 2012 Broadband Breakfast Club event “Measuring Broadband Performance: What Have We Learned in Four Years?” on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 at Clyde’s of Gallery Place,