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March 2022

Sponsor: 

New America

Date: 
Wed, 04/13/2022 - 12:00 to 13:00

In The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build An Equitable World, authors Afua Bruce and Amy Sample Ward make an argument for the inherent links between technology and equity, and how you can help shift our collective relationship to technology and how it is produced and disseminated. The authors, two leaders from the field of equitable design in technology, ask the big questions that help inform both what needs to change in tech and how all of us can make change.


Sponsor: 

Federal Communications Commission

Date: 
Thu, 04/07/2022 - 13:30

The hearing will feature multiple panels comprised of consumers, experts from nonprofit organizations, and academics. The hearing will focus on how to make the broadband labels useful, with an emphasis on what specific information consumers need. The hearing will also highlight research on how consumers interpret information and make informed decisions.

The FCC invites questions in advance of or during the hearing by sending an email to BroadbandLabelsHearing@fcc.gov


Speed test surveys show 1 million Kansans may have inadequate internet

Two surveys conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas Institute for Policy & Social Research from January 2021 to January 2022 found that over 1 million Kansans live in a ZIP code where recorded average download speeds are below 100 Mbps download /20 Mbps upload. Those speeds are considered an adequate baseline for people engaged in online education, streaming video, downloading and uploading large files, and households with multiple users.

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