Mountain Connect 2024: Key partnerships, digital equity, and the Illinois Broadband Lab
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On this episode of Connected Nation, we talk with the director of state and local government partnerships at ready.net. Plus, we sit down with a representative from the University of Illinois about the Illinois Broadband Lab and catch up with Digitunity to learn how the nonprofit is expanding its work to reach more Americans in need.
Related Links:
Ready.net
Illinois Broadband Initiative, Univ. of Illinois
Digitunity
Mountain Connect 2024 series
Opening episode
The Internet Equity Initiative and connecting the most remote, inhabited island in Michigan
The high-tech (and dangerous) broadband job that some say needs regulation now
Nokia's Network in a Box and the one thing most people get wrong about the company
Key partnerships, digital equity, and the Illinois Broadband Lab
BEAM's leadership on broadband expansion and accessibility across Mississippi
How BroadbandOhio is navigating BEAD
Chapters
1. Mountain Connect 2024: Key partnerships, digital equity, and the Illinois Broadband Lab (00:00:00)
2. Earnie Holtrey into and what is ready.net (00:00:59)
3. Common trends with RFPs (00:04:58)
4. Aneta Thomas Lee into (00:10:30)
5. What exciting things are happening the in broadband space (00:16:05)
6. Karisa Tashlijan and Chris Craven into (00:22:34)
7. Federal funding for digital equity (00:25:04)
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