On this week’s Priorities Podcast, Maryland Chief Technology Officer Eric Bathras explains his role in Maryland’s Digital Infrastructure Group, which Gov. Wes Moore created this month with an executive order. Bathras says he and Maryland Chief Information Officer Katie Savage presented the idea of the group to the state’s leadership last year. He says it was born from a need to get more state agencies involved in planning broadband expansion. Ahead of incoming federal broadband grant dollars, Bathras says DIG provides the best opportunity for collaboration across the state’s agencies to maximize resources. “We have this unique opportunity to be able to blend our fiber and our wireless assets together and really move the state forward in terms of broadband expansion across the state in the coming years,” he says.

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