Connecting the Dots: Linking Broadband Adoption to Job Creation and Job Competitiveness

Connecting the Dots: Linking Broadband Adoption to Job Creation and Job Competitiveness

National Urban League Policy Institute and Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (EDT)

The report concludes that after unprecedented effort to bridge the digital divide, the broadband access gap between African Americans and white Americans has started to narrow. Now is the time to leverage what has been achieved and what is yet to be achieved to trigger entrepreneurship, initiative and participation by African Americans in broadband jobs and businesses.

The panel will explore how private enterprise, community organizations and governments can work together to do this in underserved communities. Panelists will include those actively engaged in this from Time Warner Cable, Inc., the Federal Communications Commission and the Central Florida Urban League, whose Center for Workforce Innovation was featured as a success story in the report.

Who:

• Marc H. Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League
• The Honorable Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
• The Honorable Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
• The Honorable Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
• The Honorable Michael Powell, President/CEO, National Cable and Telecommunications Association/ Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
• Chanelle P. Hardy, Senior Vice-President/Executive Director, National Urban League Policy Institute
• Josh Gottheimer, Senior Counselor to the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
• Fernando Laguarda, Vice President, External Affairs/Policy Counselor, Time Warner Cable, Inc.
• Allie Braswell, CEO, Central Florida Urban League