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Internet For All - High-Speed Broadband for Every Home in the United States
Date: April 24th, 2025
Time: 11 am
Location: 370 Jay St, 8th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Since 2010, the U.S. government has created a number of programs to build out internet access in high-cost areas, along with attempts to make internet access available to low-income households, schools, libraries & health clinics. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) allocated $42.5 billion for broadband deployment as the BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, & Deployment), with the goal of providing 100 Megabit or faster high-quality internet access to every household & small business in the 56 states & territories within four years of selecting providers. (This amount is roughly four times the total NSF budget.) NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information Administration), located within the Department of Commerce, administers the BEAD project. I served two years on the BEAD policy team. In this talk, I will discuss:
Why subsidize rural broadband? What has been tried before?
What are the difficult policy choices in getting to 100% deployment?
What roles do bespoke software, "big data," & data analysis play in administering complex grant programs?
How do government teams work in practice?
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