Corinne Hill, Chattanooga Public Library Executive Director, will present at the Broadband Summit: Broadband Adoption and Usage – What Have We Learned? this Thursday, in Washington, DC. She will serve as a panelist during the discussion “Best Practices Learned from Implementing Broadband Adoption Programs within Different Communities.
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The Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Services, with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), is holding this summit to identify and discuss best practices learned from broadband adoption programs and academic studies/surveys, and how implementation of these best practices can close the broadband adoption gap among Americans – particularly low-income households, racial and ethnic minorities, seniors, rural residents, residents of Tribal lands and people with disabilities. The Summit will include a keynote speech by Assistant Secretary of Communications and Information and Administrator of NTIA, Department of Commerce, Lawrence E. Strickling.