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‘Broadband access is a fundamental right’: Land O’Lakes launches boots-on-the-ground effort to bridge the digital divide By Gill Hyslop
The ACC programme aims to foster a new generation of leaders to tackle their community s most pressing connectivity challenges. Pic: GettyImages/ipopba One of America’s leading agribusiness and food companies is spearheading the American Connection Corps (ACC) programme, aimed at fostering a new generation of transformational leaders to tackle the most pressing connectivity challenges within their communities.
Millions of Americans in rural and under-resourced communities live without broadband internet access – today an essential tool in everyday life. Certainly, the pandemic has driven home how critical it is in order to stay connected not only with others, but also to have access to daily staples.
The Daily Yonder ‘Connection Corps’ Will Put Hometown Leaders to Work on Broadband The American Connection Corps will place fellows in 50 towns in 12 states to work on improving broadband connectivity. The application deadline is May 15.
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The class of 2019 Lead for America fellows. This year Lead for America and a coalition of 150 organizations will support 50 hometown leaders to work on broadband and community development. (Photo submitted)
The Biden administration has proposed $100 billion in funding for increased broadband access throughout the country. But there is no universal blueprint for connecting rural communities, and no path to greater connectivity that does not include local advocates and planners.
Fifty people are being recruited to serve as community leaders focused on local internet connectivity.
The program, the American Connection Corps, will be led by Land O Lakes in conjunction with Lead for America (LFA) and funded through the support of Heartland Forward and 19 additional partner organizations.
“Millions of families are operating day-to-day with a lack of basic infrastructure – adequate broadband access – that has become a necessity in today’s world and, frankly, a fundamental right. Action cannot wait,” said Beth Ford, Land O’Lakes, Inc. president and chief executive officer. “Through our years-long work on broadband advocacy and conversations with our farmers, our customers and so many others, we’ve seen and heard firsthand how critical digital infrastructure is to the success of communities and businesses across America. From everyday life to prospering in a global economy, investing and focusing on this issue now will pay dividends.”
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