Description:

Location: Multi-Purpose Room

Date: Thursday May 19th, 2016

Time: 10:45-11:45 AM

Facilitators:

Karen Perry

Broadband Specialist

BroadbandUSA, NTIA

Karen Hanson

Manager, Partnerships and Interagency Affairs

BroadbandUDA, NTIA

Katherine Bates

Senior Program Manager

Urban Libraries Council

NTIA’s Community Connect Initiative is a part of the Administration’s broad ConnectALL Initiative. The Community Connect Framework and Tools will support communities with strategic assessment and planning tools to promote local priorities and advance broadband access, adoption, policies, and use.

The goal of the effort is to increase the number of communities assessing their connectivity impacts and investing to improve community broadband outcomes. The Framework and Tools will set the stage for communities to participate in a robust framework for broadband planning.  NTIA is conducting extensive outreach to gather input from stakeholders across communities to help shape the Connect Framework and Tools. Attend the session to discuss:

•  Broadband adoption is often defined as having a computer, basic digital skills, and a home broadband subscription. Should this definition change in an environment where millennials rely on mobile; more people have transient housing;, device options are exploding; and advanced skills are fundamental

• What are the roles of government and civic institutions in promoting digital inclusion and equity? What are the indicators and measures that define role-model programs?  Is there a baseline level of support that all communities should provide?

• How should we define and discuss training in an age where basic digital skills are still important but content development management and creation skills are critical to economic advancement and civic participation?