Bridging the Digital Divide for Your Community: Expand Broadband Access with Connected NationJoin us for this Lunch & Learn session with Connected Nation, a US national non-profit focused on improving lives through technology. CN will explain how their team assesses and plans for the expansion of broadband access, adoption, and use. Connected Nation works to empower people with technology skills and resources to improve their quality of life, and develops public-private partnerships to bring technology access to targeted geographies and population. We'll look at how this mandate fits into the purview of economic development and how your community could potentially benefit. Bring your questions!
We'll look at:
- Sourcing better broadband data for your region
- Community broadband assessments: Access, Adoption, and Use
- Local technology action planning and partnership building
- Digital inclusion and telework job creation programming
- How to make this work to improve telehealth for your community
Presenters: Eric Frederick and Chris Pedersen
