More than a hundred economic development professionals, elected officials, internet service providers and interested parties from across North Carolin.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Thursday the creation of the Office of Digital Equity and Literacy within the state’s Department of Information Technology, charged with executing parts of Cooper’s $1.2 billion plan to close the digital divide.
The new office, which is to be housed within NCDIT’s Division of Broadband and Digital Equity, a new initiative with largely the same purpose to close the state’s digital divide, will lead a coalition of state and local agencies and nonprofits. That group, called the North Carolina Digital Equity and Inclusion Collaborative, is to share best practices and provide feedback for future programs, as well as facilitate a $165 million investment from Cooper over the next four years to grant 365,000 households the “devices, repair support and digital literacy and skills training” to join the digital economy, a