A decade ago, conversations about the digital divide — the gap between those with access to digital technologies and those without — focused mainly on high-speed, broadband internet. While ...

The latest iteration of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) takes aim at several obstacles limiting edtech’s ability to transform teaching and learning.

Earlier this month, the US Department of Education (ED) made a call to action and broadened the definition of the digital divide by releasing its first National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s plan focuses on ways K–12 stakeholders can use ed tech to improve students’ access to educational opportunities through learning experiences. Rebecca Torchia is a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – In Springfield, the city has received a $102,025 grant to help residents better understand technology and the internet. The grant is from the Municipal Digital Equity ...

This week in “What’s New in Digital Equity” — our weekly look at government digital equity and broadband news — we have a number of interesting items, which you can jump to with the links below: The U ...

Digital equity—ensuring everyone has equal access to the internet and the technologies our modern society is built on, regardless of economic status or geographic location—has never been more ...

Despite worldwide advances in digitization over the past decade, many people are still excluded from the digital economy and miss out on the opportunities it provides. This exclusion, referred to as ...

(TNS) — According to a 2023 article in Forbes, 42 million Americans have no access to broadband. In our interconnected world, lack of broadband feeds the digital divide, and if you think that doesn’t ...

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social ...

IT asset disposition firm Reconome, along with Good Things Foundation, has committed to delivering 85,000 devices to digitally excluded people across the UK by June 2029. The plan is to get devices ...