On Tuesday, July 1, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and National Digital Inclusion Alliance will present the next Building For Digital Equity event - Wired For Freedom: Digital Access and the American Dream. It will run from 3:00 - 4:15 ET.
Register for the free event here.
Once again, we thank UTOPIA Fiber for their sponsorship in making these events happen.
We will kick off the event with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell from ILSR and NDIA's Gina Cooper. Skye Downing will set our tone with a song, to be followed by Amy Huffman updating everyone on the latest news relating to the Trump Administration's efforts to cancel the Digital Equity Act.
This B4DE will again feature the Lightning Round speakers that will offer short presentations - Ka'ala Souza from Digital Ready Hawaii and Sarah Nichols from Land of Sky.
Monica Gonzalez from Methodist Healthcare Ministries will be sharing information about their work in South Texas.
The big finish will be moderated by ILSR's Sean Gonsalves - featuring Tony Batalla, CIO for the city of Oakland; Alisa Valentin from Public Knowledge; Autumn Evans of the Rocket Community Fund; and Patrick Messac from Oakland Undivided.
As always, we would love to see you commenting and asking questions in the chat to help us keep it real!
The livestream will be available (and later archived) on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn with live viewer questions answered by the invited speakers and presenters, which is still being finalized.
We will also be live posting from the Community Broadband Networks Bluesky page.
Never seen a Building for Digital Equity event before? Check out our last one below, where we were joined by Revati Prasad (Benton Institute for Broadband and Society), Virginia Benzan (Massachusetts Law Reform Institute), and Alisa Valentin (Public Knowledge) and talked about adapting to a shifting policy landscape in the midst of much confusion and change.
Header image of US Flag hanging outside apartment window courtesy of Travis Truman on Flickr, Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
