Save the Date: Next B4DE Marks Pivotal Time In ‘Charting the Course’ Forward

Building for Digital Equity

With uncertainty swirling around the future of BEAD and Digital Equity Act programs in the wake of an Executive Order by the Trump administration freezing federal funding and loan programs, the next Building for Digital Equity (#B4DE) live stream is shaping up to be perhaps the most monumental one to date.

Charting the Course: Adapting to Policy Shifts While Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize” promises to bring hundreds of digital inclusion practitioners together for the increasingly popular virtual gathering that aims to offer insights and ground-truth on how communities continue to their work in closing the digital divide at a time when the programs established to do so have been tossed into disarray.

Registration is now open here.

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Slated for March 13 from 3 to 4:15 pm ET, the upcoming live stream will once again be co-hosted by ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks Initiative and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and sponsored by UTOPIA Fiber.

In the previous #B4DE former FCC Chief of Staff and now New Street Research policy advisor Blair Levin, along with NDIA Executive Director Angela Siefer offered candid insights on what may be coming with a changing of the guard in the nation’s capital.

The upcoming live stream will offer a much clearer picture of what is happening and what leading advocates are doing to continue the work of expanding broadband access.

The livestream will be available (and later archived) on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn with live viewer questions answered by the invited speakers and presenters, which is still being finalized. We will also be live posting from the Community Broadband Networks Bluesky page.

Register now here.

Watch the previous #B4DE with Blair Levin and Angela Siefer below:

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