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How a ‘Once in a Century’ Broadband Investment Plan Could Go Wrong
Starting next week, California residents have 30 days to challenge maps that will determine how $1.8 billion is distributed to increase internet access
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PRESS RELEASE: The Federal Communications Commission Proposes Ongoing Funding to Keep Millions of Students Connected
The Federal Communications Commission Proposes Ongoing Funding to Keep Millions of Students Connected
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How one word could make or break a California lawmaker’s bid for broadband equity
Visit cadigitalequity.org and support AB 2239 to challenge the discriminatory practices that relegate our Black and brown neighbors/communities to second class digital citizenship.
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Oakland’s canceled SAT debacle points to broader testing and equity concerns statewide
Wi-Fi troubles led to the cancellation of a planned SAT exam for roughly 1,400 students in Oakland, a debacle that stretched on for hours Saturday and shed light on broader inequities in the city.
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Gavin Newsom plans to cut $2 billion in public broadband projects
The proposed cuts could jeopardize plans to build the largest public broadband network in the United States.
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Can a California bill end digital discrimination?
Paula Sandoval finds herself without access to the internet at home despite living in the digital age. Sandoval, a 65-year-old immigrant, lives in a rented room in Oakland. When she tried to set up internet access herself, she was met with a $50 quote from her mobile carrier, T-Mobile—a cost she says is unaffordable for her. Her situation mirrors that of many Californians, a state where one in five people lack broadband internet service.
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Tech X Radio
Welcome to the Tech Exchange's new Tech X Radio podcast, where we spotlight community resources and advocates for social change and fighting for digital equity…
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New bill would make FCC rules state law in effort to end digital discrimination
A new bill would make California the first state to put in place digital discrimination standards when it comes to internet connectivity.
As KCBS Radio's Mike DeWald reports, the effort looks to level the playing field.
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Political Playback: California Capitol News You Might Have Missed
On April 10, the California Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee voted to approve Assembly Bill (AB) 2239 after a hearing at the State Capitol.
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New Bill Pushes California to Confront Digital Discrimination
Even now, in an age when most of us use the Internet, one in five Californians lack reliable and affordable service. Most are lower-income people of color and rural residents.
This afternoon in Sacramento, the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee takes up the latest salvo in this struggle, a bill designed to chip away at this form of digital discrimination.
California Digital Equity Summit
#OaklandUndivided was honored to join more than 100 digital equity advocates from across the State for the 4th annual Digital Equity LA Summit…
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$1.5 Billion To Be Added To State's Broadband Plan
The proposed state budget includes $1.5 billion to help build an open-access "middle-mile" network which will connect homes and business through 10,000 miles of high speed internet service. (Middle Mile refers to the backbone infrastructure). That's on top of an already-allocated $6 billion for the "Broadband For All" plan.
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Push for broadband access to all communities in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Advocates from different California organizations met on Wednesday to discuss making broadband available across the state.
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PRESS RELEASE: The State Threatens to Redline California’s Least Connected Communities in Multi-Billion Dollar Broadband Infrastructure Projects
Digital equity advocates came together at a California Broadband Council meeting to voice their concerns about the projects’ reliance on bad data to make critical funding decisions
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Newsom reverses broadband cuts advocates portrayed as digital redlining
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will divert funds from the January 2024 budget to restore a broadband expansion plan in low-income communities like East Oakland and South Central Los Angeles.
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Editorial: Newsom throws South L.A. under the broadband bus
More than two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved what was then the nation’s largest-ever investment in public broadband…
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Editorial: Newsom plan to bridge digital divide becoming a boondoggle
Administration, Public Utilities Commission turning COVID-era promise into reckless spending of billions of dollars
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State’s broadband plan could leave out one of its least connected communities: East Oakland
Digital equity advocates say California’s downsized internet infrastructure plan will disenfranchise historically redlined East Oakland and South Central Los Angeles…
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“Good old-fashioned redlining”: Why was Oakland cut out of state plan for high-speed internet?
Federal relief approved to improve access, but funds to city have been cut by more than half…
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Este programa ofrece descuentos de hasta $30 mensuales para pagar el internet: ¿quiénes califican y cómo aplicar?
Familias de bajos ingresos que reciban beneficios como CalFresh, WIC, Medi-Cal o que incluso tengan estudiantes en algunos distritos escolares podrían aplicar para recibir este apoyo mensual. “Es un beneficio federal que otorga $30 al mes, es decir, más de $300 anuales, para pagar la factura de internet”, explicó Cinthia Díaz, vocera de la organización Oakland Undivided. Te mostramos dónde y cómo solicitar esta ayuda…