Conferences

There are a number of conferences that may be of interest to people addressing the digital divide, refurbishing computer equipment and training. If you know of any that should be added to this list, please email Barry at PBDD.

The order will change as time passes. 

  1. We are looking forward to Net Inclusion 2024 February 13-15 in Philadelphia, PA. Details are available on NDIA’s Net Inclusion 2024 web page. (Announced 30 June, 2023)
  2. Mountain Connect Conference in Denver, August 5-7, 2024

Previous Conferences

  1. Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2023, Anchorage, Alaska   May 22-24
  2. Net Inclusion 2023 was held in San Antonio, Texas, February 28- March 2, 2023. Our conference report is available in our Net Inclusion conference report
  3. AFTRR 2023 was held in San Antonio, Texas, February 27. Our notes are available here: March Partners Newsletter
  4. Indigenous Connectivity Summit, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Oct 24-28, 2022
  5. Digital Inclusion Policy & Research Conference 2022, from University of Liverpool, September 20, 2022
  6. Net Inclusion 2022 was held in February 15-17, 2022 in Portland, Oregon  at Portland State University. 
  7. Electronics Reuse Conference 2021 was held November 8-10 in Chicago, IL
  8. Net Inclusion 2021 was online and recorded.
  9. Net Inclusion Webinar recordings – October-November 2020 https://www.digitalinclusion.org/net-inclusion-2020-webinar-series/
  10. Mountain Connect, Broadband development conference
    1. 2021 Virtual
    2. 2020 Virtual
  11. National Tribal Broadband Summit, a virtual conference held Sept 21-25 2020. Recordings (each day) at:
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HuTpsVB06I day 1
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_WCJ28lnY day 2
    3. not available day 3
    4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hip1PGzBrZM day 4
    5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hP-Eswd8Ic day 5 
  12. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide 22-24 May 2019 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA 2019 conference
  13. Net Inclusion, NDIA, April 1-3 2019. Charlotte, NC.  Write up: https://pbdd.org/april-2019-net-inclusion-conference-report/ 
  14. Learning Circles workshop with P2PU – May 17-18 2018  http://kc2018.p2pu.org/
  15. Net Inclusion, NDIA, April 17-19, 2018. Write-up available at: https://pbdd.org/april-2018-net-inclusion-conference-report/
  16. Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit Feb 9-10 Toronto, Ontario, Canada attended by President of PBDD Barry Glicklich, writeup is available at: https://pbdd.org/february-2018-newsletter/
  17. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide conference May 24-26 2017 in San Diego, California. Proceedings –  http://www.ppdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PPDD2017Conference-Program-Final.pdf 
  18. Net Inclusion May 16-17 2017 in St. Paul, MN – PBDD attended. Read our writeup. Slides for various sessions are available at https://digitalinclusion.org/net-inclusion-program/
  19. Net Inclusion 2016 May 18-19. Barry and Katherine’s writeup is available here.
  20. Digital Equity Learning February 2016 in Washington DC.  http://digitalequityforlearning.org/ Recording of the event is available at: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/events/digital-equity/
  21. Electronics Reuse Conference, Nov 2-3 2015, New Orleans, LA. Conference has a commercial hardware focus. Katherine and Barry went and the writeup is here.
  22. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide was on October 21-22, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. Board member Maryanna attended with a writeup available here.  

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