At the Commerce Department, the Economic Development Administration EDA provides grants through its Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs , which can be used to support broadband infrastructure projects, digital skills training, and smart cities development in the context of local or regionally driven comprehensive economic development strategies. This latest round of federal broadband funding updates will help ensure that the public has easy access to the most up-to-date information possible to best facilitate broadband buildout and economic development.
Skip to main content. You are here Home » Blog. April 24, by NTIA. Continuing the Broadband Dialogue with States. Tackling the Digital Divide in the Pacific Northwest. National Broadband Availability Map. Digital Inclusion. And grantees have developed best practice methodologies in many areas, such as evaluating changes in provider participation, defining classes of broadband technology, and reflecting satellite coverage. In addition, the public is using the crowdsourcing feature to alert us if, say, a list of local broadband providers is incomplete or incorrect.
In other cases, the public has identified errors, which we pass on to our grantees to support their ongoing data verification efforts. By the way, enter your street address — not city name or zip code — for the most accurate results. The map serves many types of users.
Business owners and consumers can type in their address and see a list of local broadband providers, along with details on their maximum advertised speeds and the technology used to provide the service. Economic developers can use the map to market particular communities to businesses and residents looking for cutting-edge telecommunications services. Research firms and academics can figure out which states, counties, and census blocks have the fastest broadband connections and compare those findings with demographic data, such as income and race.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, for example, has already done a study on broadband access and demographics using the dataset published in February.
Policymakers can use the map to help craft policies that support private sector investment in broadband. And application developers can combine the data with additional information for further analysis or other new uses. Skip to main content.
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