The fifth Charles Benton Digital Equity Champion Award is officially open for nominations! Two awards will be given: One will recognize an outstanding individual who has truly made a difference in the field of digital equity; the other will acknowledge an up-and-coming digital inclusion practitioner. The award will be presented in April at Net Inclusion 2020 in Portland, Oregon, by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA).
One PA farmer’s group has an idea to pay for expanding rural broadband access — a tax on cell phone bills. The proposal was floated recently at the annual PA Farm Show in Harrisburg (PA) on back-to-back days by PA State Grange president Wayne Campbell. As a starting point, Campbell suggested that a $0.75 to $1 surcharge per-month on every cell phone user could finance small, matching state grants for local broadband projects.
14 Native American tribes in Southern CA are now directly connected to the state-of-the-art International Internet Exchange, Pacific Wave, and its peering, high-performance scientific networks, and ever-expanding global connectivity. Six more tribes are also expected to join in the coming months.
KentuckyWired, the much-heralded plan to improve internet connectivity across KY, promised to create financial opportunities through reliable, high-speed internet access for rural communities that have repeatedly been hammered by the loss of jobs in the coal and tobacco industries.
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