Resources for Plan Development
- NDIA’s Asset Mapping page Asset mapping is an approach to planning and community development centered on identifying and building on a community’s existing resources
- Advancing Digital Equity for All: Community-based Recommendations for Developing Effective Digital Equity Plans to Close the Digital Divide and Enable Technology-Empowered Learning from the US Department of Education Office of Educational Technology
- Digital Integrators examines how community based organizations can leverage broadband access and adoption to improve and modernize workforce development and economic mobility programs, providing recommendations for such programs based on a set of pilot programs
- Benton Institute’s Pathways to Digital Equity: How Communities Can Reach Their Broadband Goals—and How Philanthropy Can Help
City and State Digital Equity Plans
- NDIA’s State Digital Equity Plan Toolkit
- How to Submit Challenges to the FCC Broadband Map
- San Francisco Digital Equity Strategic Plan
- San Francisco Digital Equity Playbook – designed for social service providers who want to help their clients get connected or learn digital skills.
- City of Austin Digital Inclusion Strategic Plan
- City of Austin Digital Inclusion Principles
- Long Beach Digital Inclusion Roadmap
- Portland Digital Equity Action Plan
- Seattle’s Internet for All Resolution, Detailed Report, and the Digital Equity Action Plan which preceded those
- Draft Technology Strategic Plan for DC
- Detroit’s Policy Statement and Digital Access Infrastructure Overview
- New York City’s Internet Master Plan, and appendices
- Kansas City’s Digital Inclusion Plan
- Baltimore City’s Inclusive Digital Transformation Strategic Plan Overview and Plan Details
- City of Bloomington Digital Equity Strategic Plan
- Salt Lake City’s Digital Equity Policy Packet
Resources from North Carolina State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI):
Band NC‘s (Building a New Digital Economy- North Carolina) Digital Inclusion Planning Guide and Planning Guide template
Digital Inclusion 101 webinar
Resources referenced in the webinar:
NC Broadband Survey
Benton Institute: Public Infrastructure/Private Service
NC Broadband Indices
Digital Charlotte Digital Navigators
Intro to Digital Inclusion Planning webinar
Referenced resources:
Forsyth County Digital Equity Plan
Upper Coastal Plain Digital Inclusion Plan
Digital Inclusion Asset Mapping webinar
Resources referenced in the webinar:
NC Broadband Survey Data
Digital Inclusion Plan Template and Guide
Challenges and Best Practices webinar
Resources referenced in the webinar:
NC Hearts Gigabit (A Project of NC Broadband Matters)
Awareness and Digital Literacy (Division of Broadband and Digital Literacy)
Association of Regional Councils of Government
Rockingham County Digital Inclusion Plan
Alamance County Digital Inclusion Plan
Digital Durham Digital Equity Plan
California Emerging Technology Fund Resources
CETF’s resources for when developing a Digital Equity Framework with and for local government:
- Cover Letter and Best Practices Check List for Local Government Leaders (developed by CETF and Regional Broadband Consortia): https://www.cetfund.org/wp-
content/uploads/2021/11/Cover- Letter-for-Best-Practices- Check-List-Regional-Consortia_ 210930.pdf - Local Government Check List for Digital Equity: https://www.cetfund.org/wp-
content/uploads/2021/11/Local- Government-Check-List-for- Digital-Equity-September-2021- poppysunrise.pdf - Getting Connected – A Broadband Deployment and Adoption Resource Guide For Local and Regional Government Leaders: https://www.cetfund.org/wp-
content/uploads/2021/04/ Getting-Connected-A-Broadband- Deployment-and-Adoption- Resource-Guide-For-Local-and- Regional-Government-Leaders.pd