About | W2i Digital Inclusion Forum

The W2i Digital Inclusion Forum is a comprehensive resource center to inform, educate and share best practices among state and local government leaders, field practitioners, industry and institutional stakeholders and service providers on identifying and implementing sustainable market solutions to bridge the digital divide in North America. This Forum specifically aims to bring together:

·        State and local government leaders taking an active role in fostering the deployment of a broadband infrastructure for digital inclusion

·        Community and Institutional stakeholders including agency executives interested in deploying applications fostering economic development, educational and non-profits institutions, community technology centers and other community based technology project stakeholders

·         Technology and broadband service providers

·         Policy makers and regulators

The W2i Digital Inclusion Forum has introduced an interactive informational and educational process that provides local government leaders and their institutional partners the resources they need to accelerate the adoption of broadband within their community:

·         An online web site to provide resources for local community broadband adoption campaigns

·         A customizable Broadband Adoption Toolkit to facilitate local Community and Institutional broadband outreach campaigns