The Week with Roger

This Week: Closing the Broadband Gap with Dr. Nicol Turner Lee


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0:26: What are the challenges around broadband access - especially for low income, rural, and POC. Why this is an urgent issue.

3:33: An examination of the trends in broadband access.

5:00: Dr. Lee shares her story about how she served those excluded from broadband access.

9:59: The reasons that people aren’t connected.

11:43: How a national program could help solve those problems.

12:26: How remote learning will affect African American and Latino students - but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

14:40: A discussion around expanding the funding formula.

17:17: It’s time to rethink where the money sits.

19:24: The No Child Left Offline initiative - what is it and what could it do?


Learn more about Dr. Lee here: https://www.drnicolspeaks.com/

Follow Dr. Lee on twitter @drturnerlee


Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Recon Analytics, Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, TechTank, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institute, Tech New Deal, FCC, Federal Communications Center, pandemic, COVID, COVID-19, coronavirus, urban, rural, adoption utilization, economic opportunities, workforce opportunities, President Biden, machine learning algorithms, remote learning, American Dream, universal services contract, broadband insecurity, 

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