Why NC Broadband Matters

In this podcast, Chris Mitchell of the Institute for L [...]

Join Chris Mitchell for another NC Broadband Matters podcast, this time featuring Christa Vinson, Program Officer for the Rural Broadband and Infrastructure program at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Amy Huffman, Policy Director at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA). Christa is NC Broadband Matters immediate past President, and Amy played a critical role while at the NC Broadband Infrastructure office leading the state’s Homework Gap analysis and the NC Band Digital Equity Plan effort with the Institute for Emerging Issues. Christa and Amy discuss how Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity are finally being recognized at the national level, through both funding and policy mandates, while being seen as key components of workforce training and economic development. Underneath the growing explosion of these digital training programs – collaboration.

This podcast with Chris Mitchell of the Institute for [...]

Erin and Chris discuss solutions, including how local businesses, hospitals, faith-based and educational leaders in our communities must make loud their public voices that North Carolina’s Republicans need to help solve the state’s broadband problem in this COVID environment the way the Arkansas Republicans just did.

“This is not your fault. It is not your fault that you [...]

Average home upload usage grew 58% in the last year. Wh [...]

We bring our broadband planning discussion to the west [...]

“People in the rural areas are not working from home be [...]

This is a 90 minute audiotape of NC Broadband Matters J [...]

In Part 2 of this NC Broadband Matters webinar, Jack Co [...]