Data Challenges & Opportunities to Achieve Digital Equity
summary
Counties and cities map needs and build infrastructure near homes, launch device drives and training, and measure outcomes; actions include distributing 18,000 hotspots to homeless and foster students, repurposing 22,000 surplus devices from county staff, creating wifi.lacounty.gov and GetConnectedLA portals, launching an Angelino Corps of 400 youth helpers, and running household pilots in top 3–5 neighborhoods per district. Biggest gap is inaccurate FCC maps so teams push for address-level ISP data and combine ACS, commercial speed tests and ESRI marketing data to target funding.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and panel overview
- 10:19Digital equity challenges overview
- 28:10Data gaps and infrastructure needs
- 41:16Crowdsourcing and partnerships
- 52:34Data-driven decision making
- 57:51Closing remarks and call to action
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