Digital Equity Keynote at Smart City Connect 2021

A panel of experts convened (virtually of course) at this year’s Spring Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo to discuss a timely and urgent topic - Digital Equity across our communities. Tune in to learn from their efforts and insights.

Panel Description:

Understanding the importance of connected community - from education to healthcare, remote work, or other social & care services, enabling access for all is now more critical than ever. In this panel, we'll discuss the most in need populations, address digital literacy & inclusion, affordability and pricing as well as and identify the existing barriers and explore the technologies and models to address them and accelerate the deployment of digital services for cities and communities in urgent need.

Panelists:

Clayton Banks, CEO, Silicon Harlem (@siliconharlem)

Colman Keane, Broadband Executive Director, City of Fort Collins (@fortcollinsgov)

Brian Osterloch, Director of the Department of Technology and Innovation, City of Albuquerque (@cabq)

Mariela Alfonzo, Founder, State of Place (@cityfoodlover)

Chelsea Collier, Editor-at-Large, Smart Cities Connect Media & Research (moderator) (@smartcityc)