Publications

• Digital Northwest Broadband Summit page
• Agenda

NTIA, through the BroadbandUSA program, will hold a half-day workshop on March 22, 2016, to engage stakeholders in developing meaningful measures for community broadband access, adoption, policy and use as part of its efforts to develop the Community Connectivity Initiative. The Community Connectivity Initiative Workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Pacific Daylight Time in Seattle, WA.

NTIA offers comments on behalf of the Administration in support of updating the Lifeline program to subsidize access to broadband for low-income consumers. Based on the Administration’s extensive experience in leading national broadband programs, the Administration recommends that the FCC make enhancements to the Lifeline program.

The next meeting of the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee will be on March 18, 2016, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. The meeting will be held at the Wiley Rein Conference Center, 1776 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20006. CSMAC provides advice to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information on spectrum management policy matters.

NTIA, through the BroadbandUSA program, in conjunction with Next Century Cities will hold a one-day regional broadband summit, “Digital Northwest,” to share information to help communities build their broadband capacity and utilization.

The Digital Northwest Broadband Summit will be held on March 21, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time. The meeting will be held at the Bell Harbor Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66, Seattle, WA 98121.