Helping Communities Work is a funders collaborative formed to support the Public Interest News Network. Our goal is to align and advance funding, investing, human capital, work-based learning and workforce development strategies to support the rapidly emerging fields of public interest communications and technology.
Our work-based learning initiative will include a focus on digital equity for which public funding is allocating a total of more than 42 billion dollars to help achieve. Public interest communications can broaden the outreach strategies of the digital equity plans and ecosystems emerging in each state. The funding supports the deployment of fiber to the home and other high-capacity broadband solutions. https://www.ntia.gov/press-release/2023/biden-harris-administration-announces-state-allocations-4245-billion-high-speed
The Digital Equity Research Center defines digital equity ecosystems as interactions between individuals, populations, communities and their larger socio-technical environments, which all play a role in shaping the work to advance more equitable access to technology and social, economic and racial justice.