Black Enterprise Covers Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

Black Enterprise covered the Advancing Digital Equity for Black Communities panel at the 2023 Future of Black Communities Summit. The digital equity panel featured the Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives Dr. Jon Gant; Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution Dr. Nicol Turner Lee; Comcast NBCUniversal Associate Vice President Sean Mickens; and Google Manager and Senior Analyst,Justice Ukadike.

From the panel discussion, Dr. Lee notes, “It’s been no secret that Black and Brown people have been connected to this internet that has evolved into artificial intelligence and so this conversation around the intersection between race, place, and space has been real and what the pandemic presented as an opportunity was that more people were paying attention. We actually have coming out of the pandemic and with the infrastructure bill, probably quadruple the amount of money that we had since President Obama when it comes to addressing connectivity. We started the digital divide with President Clinton and here we are today still talking about it, but this time we’ve got resources around it.”

Click here to read the article.