Cook County Digital Equity Director and visionary leader, Kyla Williams Tate and I have a new piece up at Tech Policy Press. In it, we share our perspectives on why our federal government needs to restore the Digital Equity Act. Mainly, we argue that federal funding is required to sustain the ecosystems that digital equity requires.
Here’s a blurb from our op-ed in today’s Tech Policy Press.
Healthy ecosystems require sustained investment. Without it, progress slows while the surrounding environment continues to change rapidly. One year later, the argument for restoring the Digital Equity Act is not primarily a financial one. It is an ecological one. Digital equity is not a pipeline that can be turned on and off. It is a living and resilient environment, shaped by trust, sustained by relationships, and dependent on the kind of investment that the Act was designed to provide.