Digital Equity Partnerships Program News Today

The state of Massachusetts, through its Massachusetts Broadband Institute, on Dec. 6 announced $20 million in new grants to support digital equity in healthcare

News Two documents have guided the Bay State's Internet for All Plan, the Statewide Digital Equity Plan and the Initial Proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, according to the state's technology collaborative. The Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI), a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative with the mission of extending high-speed internet access…

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During an event at The Tech Foundry in Springfield Thursday, leaders from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development and the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) announced $14 million in new grants from the state's Digital Equity Partnerships Program. 

High school and college students will be part of Massachusetts' Digital Equity Partnerships Program, a grant funding initiative to train seniors in technology skills and how to use devices.

State and local efforts to expand residential broadband to 53 un- and underserved communities have now brought full service to 44 of them and partial services to the others. The state also announced several new initiatives.

The $50 million in ARPA funding, which is exclusively for digital equity activities, is meant to help address those issues. The funding has to be fully committed by the end of 2024 and fully spent by the end of 2026.