National Digital Equity Center
Partnering To Create Disruptive Strategies To Close The Digital Divide Across the United States
Susan’s Corner is written by Susan Corbett, Director of the National Digital Equity Center. Ms. Corbett is a public speaker, educator, and advocate who is dedicated to providing broadband access, digital equity and digital inclusion to rural communities everywhere.
The digital divide is the gap between those who have affordable access, skills, and support to effectively engage online and those who do not. Whose job is it to close the digital divide? All of us. The first week in October is Digital Inclusion Week, https://www.digitalinclusion.org/diw22, and it is a week of awareness, recognition, and celebration. The Read More …
In January of 2022, the Maine Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report titled Digital Equity as a Civil Right in Maine. I was honored to participate as a digital equity expert to the Maine Advisory Committee (Committee) and provided the Committee with the definition of digital equity: a condition Read More …
Co-authored by Susan Corbett and Nick Battista. Susan Corbett is Founder and Executive Director of the National Digital Equity Center. Nick Battista is Senior Policy Officer at the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront. Both serve on the ConnectMaine Authority Board. The pandemic clarified what many already knew—your ability to connect to the internet is not Read More …
This post was co-written by Chloe Gray, Technology and Volunteer Coordinator for The Opportunity Alliance’s Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion programs. It was originally published in the Island Institute’s blog as part of a series to highlight the ways that our education, our elders, our health and food security are all affected by a lack Read More …
As Thanksgiving approaches, it is a good time to reflect on our blessings and give thanks. Without question, I am grateful for my wonderful family – my children, step-children, their spouses, grandchildren, Dad, brother, aunts, uncles, cousins who are like siblings, as well as my “chosen” family – special friends that are by my side, Read More …
In 2010, when I was the CEO of Axiom, the company was awarded a Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. The grant was a “Sustainable Broadband Adoption” project, and gave us the wonderful opportunity of working with Washington County’s farming and fishing communities. We were honored to work closely Read More …
I love to vote. The first election that I voted was in 1972, George McGovern vs. Richard Nixon. I was 18 years old and really felt like a grown-up, maybe for the first time in my life. I can remember that I was timid in giving my name to the elections clerk, perhaps they wouldn’t Read More …
My Auntie Sandy is an important woman in my life. She is kind, compassionate, caring and has a heart of gold and I love her very much. She cooks, sews, paints, reads, does crossword puzzles and plays Scrabble and Words with Friends. Her new skill is reading a bedtime story to her 5-year-old great-granddaughter every Read More …