NTIA Approves Illinois' Digital Equity Capacity Grant Application for More Than $23 Million

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved and recommended an application from Illinois, allowing the state to request access to more than $23 million to implement its Digital Equity Plan. This funding comes from the $1.44 billion State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program, one of three Digital Equity Act grant programs created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Illinois will use the $23,732,912 in funding to implement key digital equity initiatives, including creating a dashboard to measure progress toward digital equity and launching university partnerships and recruiting nonprofits and community-based organizations to serve as regional digital equity champions/conveners.