Bridging the Digital Divide by Ensuring Broadband on Indian Tribal Lands

The digital divide between America's well-to-do regions and its rural and tribal countryside were on display in the first panel of the federal government's Tuesday public meeting, in Las Vegas, on spending the broadband stimulus. The first of three panel discussions during the joint meeting of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service March 17 focused on the state of "vulnerable populations" within the United States, the need to drive demand for broadband, and the role of strategic institutions.