Date: November 29, 2021

Time: 1:30pm MST, 3:30pm EST

Location: via Zoom 

Meeting Type: Regular Meeting

How Called: Standing meeting

Convened: 3:40 EST

Attendees: Barry, Maryanna, Katherine

1 Minutes

Approval of October minutes.

2 Information Sharing

1. Review partner description update status: PEC sent 11/12, including Guidestar profile suggestions, awaiting response. Have interacted a fair bit with PCs for People, and updates have been made
2. Web page updates: EBB, Racial Equity, Public Policy Initiatives, Training, Newsletter, New and Upcoming
3. Updating Partner info — next By Katherine. See Latest two updates to read through, make suggestions, then we can contact the organizations to run it past them.
4. PBDD signed on to NDIA comments in response to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regarding its proposal to rescind its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) & to FCC/NTIA Nominations Support Letter Sign-On
5. Net Inclusion 2022. Barry is arriving in Portland on Sunday and leaving on Friday for Chicago.
6. Newsletter, published recently.
7. Volunteer opportunity: Research or information retrieval shared via email. Maryanna will contact her.
8. WBA Allies Digital Inclusion Benchmark 2021 Launch – Barry has been invited to a preview of the World Benchmarking Alliance‘s Digital Inclusion Benchmark, a metric which tracks how tech companies are helping to advance a more inclusive digital society. Company commitments, disclosure and performance are evaluated under four measurement areas: access, skills, use, and innovation. This preview is prior to presentation of results at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
9. Chester County Digital Inclusion Initiative update. Barry and Katherine are participating in train-the-trainers learning. 

3 Action Item Status Updates

Walking through Action Item List and noting updates. In the minutes, this will record items closed during meeting. 

1. Closed 11/29/21 – Opened 10/25/21  Barry will come up with a proposal for sponsoring attendance at Net Inclusion (for small partners). Offered it in the November newsletter to partners. Contacted previous people we were sponsoring (but got canceled.)

4 Time and Location for Next Meeting

Next meeting — December 27 1:30pm MST, 3:30pm EST via  Zoom

5 Adjourn

Adjourned: 4:32