National Urban League Meets With Rosenworcel, Starks on Digital Equity Efforts
The National Urban League had separate meetings with FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks about digital equity efforts and raised concerns about barriers to accessing and adopting broadband. The group emphasized the need for a granular data collection…
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to "better understand what is keeping households offline" and said community organizations are "best situated ... to perform this work," per an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 22-69. NUL also cited "the importance of providing communities with updated skills to use the internet." The group backed "continued funding" for the affordable connectivity program and sought an annual report on "the state of digital discrimination" to assist the commission in establishing rules to combat digital discrimination.