The ABCs of the New Digital Citizen: Adoption, Broadband, Connectivity
Channel: New America
Date: 24/05/2016

How do we support active participation in the new digital landscape by a diverse range of communities? From caregiving to education to employment opportunities, we increasingly rely on technology in all parts of our lives. But access to technology is dependent on many forces outside of the average user’s control, including location, cost, and competition. In addition, the ability to physically connect to the Internet, and the speed at which service providers support that connection, can play a critical role in opening up, or closing off, the digital environment for exploration. In this session, we look at the how, why and what behind the myriad of opportunities that technology offers, and the barriers to entry that many would-be active digital citizens routinely face.

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CHIKE AGUH 
CEO, EveryoneOn

GEOFFREY BLACKWELL 
Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel, AMERIND Risk and Board Member, Native Public Media

KEVIN MARTIN 
Vice President, Mobile and Global Access Policy, Facebook

SARAH MORRIS 
Senior Counsel & Director of Open Internet Policy, Open Technology Institute, New America

STEVEN RENDEROS 
National Organizer, Center for Media and Justice

MODERATED BY KAREN HANSON 
Director, Partnerships/Interagency Affairs, BroadbandUSA (NTIA)

**** About the Event ****

The digital age brings flexibility and dynamism to the economy, but also challenges current forms of security and equity. The disruptions in our economy, for both good and ill, offer our leaders opportunities to reframe the essential social contract we have with each other. It also asks government to rethink its relationship with its citizens. From safety nets to operation systems, from personal identity to income inequality, we need to rewire that social contract. New America has been leading these conversations for more than a decade. In this election year, we are poised to play a pivotal role in how the leading candidates write the new social contract. As the primary season settles and the general election turns its focus on our most pressing challenges, we will bring together the most original thinking on the most important public issues, to create conversations you won't hear anywhere else.

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