Category: Moonshot

Washtenaw County officials are seeking survey responses from residents in 14 townships about their internet access as part of a larger effort to create broadband equity to rural communities, they announced Tuesday. Learn More

More than 380,000 Michigan households with K-12 students lack access to broadband internet. That's according to Pierrette Widmeyer, director of communications for the Ann Arbor nonprofit Merit Network, which is partnering on a new initiative to address the academic achievement…

Internet service providers will have to provide the Federal Communications Commission with detailed geospatial maps of their coverage areas, rather than just covered census blocks, after the commission voted to change the submission process last week. Learn More

The FCC wants to crowdsource its often-criticized map of broadband availability across the US to improve accuracy and ensure maximum use of deployment dollars. "[Today] I'm proposing the Digital Opportunity Data Collection, an all-new approach to mapping that will collect…

There are numerous studies and also mountains of anecdotal evidence from teachers that students without home broadband lag in academic performance compared to students with home broadband. This problem has come to be called the homework gap.   Learn More

Featured in photo (from left to right): Joe Sawasky, Dr. Johannes Bauer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II, Marc Hudson Watch the Full Digital Inclusion Panel Discussion Download the Whitepaper   Panelists point to another bumpy road that Michigan needs to…

URC Michigan released their 11th Annual Economic Impact Report Read the Report

An estimated 27% of students lack access to broadband in their homes. To spur discussion on closing this divide, this session will raise awareness around rural broadband connectivity issues in Michigan that exacerbate the “homework gap” and affect digital inclusion.…

Like many states, much of Michigan lacks access to broadband internet. Research and Education Networks are uniquely positioned to catalyze unserved communities toward connectivity. Merit, in partnership with M-Lab and the Quello Center at Michigan State University, has developed a…

You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand, and America has no idea just how bad its broadband coverage gaps are. Read More