Welcome everyone! Sarah from IEI!

Drew Plettner, High Country Council of Governments

Martha Allman- Forsyth County Digital Equity Planning Committee

Jacquelyn Lewis, Director of Community Relations for CloudWyze

Emily Moore, Nash County Government

Zoë Walker, Institute for Emerging Issues!

Madalyn Gaito, Connect McDowell in McDowell County

Good morning from snowy Connecticut! Julie Datres with the CT Office of State Broadband.

Connie Carr-Costin, Smart Start of Pender County

Oscar Mabry, Commissioner, Town of Pinetops NC

Good morning! James Ayers here in Western North Carolina at the Foothills Regional Commission

Good morning! Danielle Healy, MCNC Durham, NC

Congratulations to Jocelyn Romina Santillan-Deras for her recent NC Better2Gether recognition for her digital inclusion efforts! More at https://iei.ncsu.edu/2-22-22/

Thank you Sarah!!

Jocelyn Romina Santillan-Deras, Digital Inclusion Coordinator-NC Farmworker Health Program-ORH

Joyce Holloway, Alliance for Greater Eastern North Carolina - Washington County and Northeastern NC area of work. I will in Greenville, NC. Good morning.

Deirdre Greene, HUBZone Technology Initiative

Congratulations, Kenny!

Earn, learn and be well. I love that!

Awesome!

Really smart to set this up similar to the MG program, creates more resources that are cost efficient but available to the community!!

I agree Deirdre. The Master Gardener program has been such a success, so what could it look like to create something similar to increase digital skills?

Some resources compiled for broadband work: https://communitydevelopment.ces.ncsu.edu/infrastructure-development-2/broadband-resources/

https://communitydevelopment.ces.ncsu.edu/tags/broadband/

Connecting about Connection https://communitydevelopment.ces.ncsu.edu/2022/02/connecting-about-connection-broadband/

45,000 computers! That's a lot!

Here's a link to the interactive EBB uptake map: https://www.lisc.org/rural/our-work/broadband-infrastructure/emergency-broadband-benefit-snapshot/

is there like a training program that can be used in baltimore

Are agencies using a specific curriculum?

how are agencies working to be inclusive of everyone in there communities (non-english speakers, etc)?

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LISC Digital Navigators use Northstar from Literacy Minnesota as well. It's free to host sites and users. There is also an annual "subscription" option that gives hosts a dashboard view on user progression. Our Digital Navigators opt into this feature to further support their clients.

Thank you so much for sharing!

definitely!

here is my email: jocelyn.santillan@dhhs.nc.gov

GCF Learn Free. Language Inclusivity: Spanish, French, Russian, Korean, Norwegian, Indonesian, Greek, Arabic, Kyrgyz, Dutch, Polish. Link: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/

https://www.internetsociety.org/learning/digital-footprints/ Language Inclusivity: English, French, Spanish

Digital Inclusion Planning Workshop #4 - https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcO6prjoiHNBYcIuvCbMXRbxISmSRSp22

Lots of great information, thank you all so much!