November 2022

Sponsor 

Digitunity

Date 
Fri, 11/04/2022 - 12:00

Digitunity, in partnership with Visible Network Labs (VNL), distributed a survey to nonprofit organizations, governments, businesses, and other organizations in 10 cities across the US to visualize relationships across sectors and create opportunities for partnerships to achieve digital equity. The effort resulted in Network maps for each of the metro areas.

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Virginia’s Connected Future: A guide for funders and philanthropists to address digital divides in the Commonwealth

Virginia has made significant strides to curtail the many facets of the digital divide that exist throughout the Commonwealth. As part of the Virginia Funders Network’s (VFN) efforts to support the Commonwealth’s commitment to achieving universal connectivity by 2024, this memo recommends several steps that funders can perform "now:"

Groups Urge FCC to Make Internet Billing Transparent and Fair with Broadband Label

More than 30 consumer advocates, broadband-data experts, and digital-rights groups sent a letter calling on the Federal Communications Commission to help consumers avoid “junk fees” by creating a broadband consumer label that is clear and visible on monthly internet bills. The label, which Congress directed the FCC to create as part of the 2021 infrastructure law, has been pending before the FCC since January.

Civil-Society Groups Call on Twitter’s Top-20 Advertisers to Demand that Elon Musk Fulfill His Promise to Safeguard Their Brands and Protect Users

More than 40 civil-society groups called on Twitter’s top-20 advertisers to inform Elon Musk that they will suspend all advertising on the platform if he follows through on plans to undermine the social network’s community standards and content moderation.