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- March 21, 2022 – Editorial: Close digital gap for Hawaii students, Star Advertiser
- March 20, 2022 – Column: Digital equity is a tool to spread aloha, Star Advertiser
- December 13, 2021 – The Spigot Of Federal Broadband Funding Is About To Open For Hawaii, Civil Beat
- May 22, 2021 – Digital Equity: The Softer Side of the Biden Infrastructure Plan, Governing
- May 21, 2021 – NTIA Has Millions for Broadband Infrastructure, Benton Institute
- May 14, 2021 – Treasury Preps Billions for States and Localities. Will it Mean More Broadband?, Benton Institute
- May 12, 2021 – Digital Literacy Assistance and Internet Access Eligible Expenses in Treasury Funds, NDIA
- February 27, 2021 – Introduction to the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, Benton Institute
- February 22, 2021 – Pandemic puts money, political muscle behind broadband, Axios
- January 27, 2021 – Broadband expansion plans find support, Hawaii Tribune Herald
- January 26, 2021 – NDIA Comments to FCC on Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, National Digital Inclusion Alliance
- January 26, 2021 – Gov. David Ige calls for economy to pivot to technology, Star Advertiser
- January 26, 2021 – Ige’s State Of The State Speech Skips The Difficult Details, Civil Beat
- January 25, 2021 – GOVERNOR DAVID IGE’S 2021 STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS, Office of the Governor
- January 8, 2021 – How Should the Biden-Harris Administration Close the Digital Divide?, H&R Advisors
- December 21, 2020 – Help Is On The Way, New COVID-19 Relief Deal Includes At Least $1.7 Billion For Hawai‘i, Senator Brian Schatz
- December 4, 2020 – Think Local About the Digital Divide, New York Times
- November 13, 2020 – The ‘digital divide’ is about equity, not infrastructure, First Policy Response
- October 14, 2020 – Public Infrastructure/Private Service: A Shared-Risk Partnership Model for 21st Century Broadband Infrastructure, Benton Institute
- September 2, 2020 – Intelligence Brief: Will fibre fuel European recovery?, Mobile World Live
- August 10, 2020 – White House, Pentagon agree to fastest transfer of spectrum for commercial 5G use, FedScoop
- August 7, 2020 – Lost summer: How schools missed a chance to fix remote learning, Star-Advertiser
- August 4, 2020 – Space X’s Starlink Won’t Be The Broadband Disruption Play Many People Think, TechDirt
- July 18, 2020 – Doing Schoolwork in the Parking Lot Is Not a Solution, New York Times
- July 15, 2020 – In a Big Cable First, Charter Plans to Participate in RDOF Auction; Eyes Billions in Funding for Rural Broadband, Telecompetitor
- July 13, 2020 – HIDOE Distance-Learning Survey Insights and Findings, HIDOE Press Release
- July 1, 2020 – Klobuchar, Clyburn Introduce Comprehensive Broadband Infrastructure Legislation to Expand Access to Affordable High-Speed Internet, Amy Klobuchar
- June 22, 2020 – HIDOE releases preliminary results of distance-learning survey, HIDOE Press Release
- June 1, 2020 – Hawaii’s Internet Relies On Increasingly Tenuous Undersea Cables, Civil Beat
- May 22, 2020 – SHLB Welcomes Senate Introduction of $2B Telehealth Bill, SHLB
- May 21, 2020 – 39 state attorneys general urge Congress to fund expanded access to broadband, Colorado Dept. of Law
- May 21, 2020 – FCC Partners with Institute of Museum and Library Services to Address Digital Divide During COVID-19, IMLS
- May 20, 2020 – New rules from OCC: Banks can now get CRA credit for funding digital inclusion, NDIA
- May 15, 2020 – Uncertain Times Fueling a Shift in State Broadband Efforts, GovTech
- May 11, 2020 – E-rate to the Home Initiative, Benton Institute
- May 11, 2020 – Lack of clear plan to replace tourism leaves Hawaii’s economic future in doubt, Star Advertiser
- May 11, 2020 – The internet isn’t broken — but its inequalities need to be fixed, The Hill
- April 29, 2020 – CTIA launches Connecting Kids Initiative for remote learning, CTIA
- April 27, 2020 – Secretary DeVos Launches New Grant Competition to Spark Student-Centered, Agile Learning Opportunities to Support Recovery from National Emergency, Dept. of Education
- April 23, 2020 – FCC Opens 6 GHz Band to Wi-Fi and Other Unlicensed Uses, FCC
- April 21, 2020 – House Democrat introduces bill to ensure students have internet access amid pandemic, The Hill
- April 16, 2020 – FCC Still Doesn’t Know Where Broadband Is As It Eyes $9 Billion In New Subsidies, Techdirt
- April 16, 2020 – Internet service in western Colorado was so terrible that towns and counties built their own telecom, Colorado Sun
- April 15, 2020 – The Internet After COVID-19: Will We Mind the Gaps?, Aspen Institute
- April 15, 2020 – Telemedicine Is Not Enough, Gizmodo
- April 14, 2020 – Why E-rate Should Fund Home Broadband During COVID-19, SHLB
- April 8, 2020 – Broadband is More Important Than Ever, U.S. Dept of Commerce
- April 5, 2020 – Maui officials rely on technology to conduct business in time of social separation, Star Advertiser
- April 5, 2020 – Educators Worry About Kids With No Computers As Online Classes Start, Civil Beat
- April 3, 2020 – How Does the CARES Act Connect Us?, Benton Institute
- April 3, 2020 – Pandemic Changes Pace of Federal Funding for Broadband Deployment, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- April 3, 2020 – Americans without broadband struggle in a stuck-at-home nation, Star Advertiser
- April 2, 2020- FCC Fights COVID-19 with $200M; Adopts Long-Term Connected Care Study, FCC
- April 2, 2020 – The Students’ Dilemma: No Internet, No Class, Civil Beat
- March 30, 2020 – Coronavirus has made the digital divide more dangerous than ever, Washington Post
- March 26, 2020 – The coronavirus crisis proves the internet should be a public utility, Quartz