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The new Pittsburgh Digital Equity Coalition will combine more than a dozen city and county entities to develop a plan to "close the digital divide" across the region.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: State lawmakers are considering companion bills in the House and Senate that would establish a statewide rape-kit tracking system; a coalition of organizations representing Asian American and Pacific Islanders have put forth an AAPI policy platform for the state; and a conversation about why it’s so hard to identify who is lacking broadband access in the state. Today’s guests include: Donna Greco, policy director with Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape; Lani Mears, president of the Filipino American Association of Pittsburgh; and Sascha Meinrath, Palmer Chair in the Telecommunications Department at Pennsylvania State University and director of X-Lab at Penn State.
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State and local officials are racing to make their own maps of broadband gaps in Pennsylvania, a process that will help dictate which areas in the state get priority access to funding.
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The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission took stock of broadband access across the 10-county region.
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Nearly 400,000 Pennsylvanians do not have access to high-speed internet.
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Nearly 14.5 million Americans still don’t have access to the internet, according to the most recent estimates from the Federal Communications Commission. To remedy that, U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle says the majority of the funding — $42.5 billion — plan will go to expanding access where broadband is currently unavailable.
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Residents in southwest Pennsylvania are being asked to complete a survey about internet access. The results could shape how much money the region gets from President Biden’s infrastructure bill to expand broadband access.
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The latest coronavirus relief bill included $7 billion to expand broadband internet access, and Pennsylvania is expected to get $850 million of the money,…
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An effort to expand the reach of broadband in Pennsylvania is expected to get rolling again when lawmakers return to Harrisburg next month. That work will…
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A new report released on Monday by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania says the Federal Communications Commission overstates broadband internet availability…