November 2023

Daily Digest 11/15/2023 (IIJA@2)

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Wed, 11/15/2023

Today's top broadband news

Here's How the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is Delivering Broadband in Your State

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is, in part, a $65 billion investment in closing the digital divide. To mark the law's second anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the White House released state-by-state fact sheets with information about how funding from the law is helping to deploy broadband networks where they haven't reached before while also connecting and keeping connected low-income households around the country.

Infrastructure Investment in the United States (Department of the Treasury)

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House Passes GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown (Wall Street Journal)

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Liberal Super PAC Is Turning Its Focus Entirely Digital (New York Times)

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Federal Officials Agree: Infrastructure Alone Will Not Close the Digital Divide (Broadband Breakfast)

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House Communications Subcommittee Witnesses Disagree on AI for Broadband Maps

Experts disagreed on the potential for artificial intelligence to aid broadband mapping efforts at a House Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing. Courtney Lang, a vice president at tech industry trade group ITI, said AI could be used to improve the quality of current broadband maps. A machine learning model could do that by using past data to identify buildings that are likely to be accurately marked as having adequate broadband, according to Lang. But Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation, urged caution.