Online/Virtual Event
Wednesday, October 4th 2023 from 2:00pm
to 3:00pm
See a recording of this webinar here.
States across the country are working to provide communities with reliable and affordable high-speed internet with support from unprecedented federal funding. Libraries and library workers will continue to play an essential role in this work. In this webinar, which was held as part of Digital Inclusion Week, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), provides strategies for building partnerships and coalitions to support digital inclusion work, as well as details about federal grant opportunities that can enhance digital inclusion programs in libraries. The coalitions portion of the webinar includes information on models for developing relationships with community partners to address digital inequities, and to support community digital inclusion ecosystem growth through a framework for partnership and coalition-building drawing from NDIA’s Digital Inclusion Coalition Guidebook.
Viewers can expect to:
- Understand how digital inclusion coalitions are formed, operate, and continue to develop
- Explore the different roles and functions digital inclusion coalitions undertake
- Learn about coalition structure and roles
- Understand library systems’ role in State Digital Equity Planning
- Learn about federal Capacity and Competitive Grant processes