It's A Wrap - CBAN Celebrates Digital Inclusion Week

The team at CBAN was very busy during the week of October 2-7 as we celebrated Digital Inclusion Week and engaged in several events to mark the occasion.

CBAN's Jon Willow interviews John Horrigan of the Benton Institute, the keynote speaker of the 2023 Fall Forum

The first ever VIRTUAL CBAN Fall Forum was held October 3-5, with 90 minutes of content presented each day online. Over 120 people from across the country registered for this virtual event covering the A-B-C's of Digital Inclusion (Advocacy, Building our ecosystem, and Connectivity). Persons registered for the 2023 Fall Forum will have exclusive access to the recordings of each days sessions until October 16th when they will be available publicly on the CBAN YouTube channel.

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To cap off Digital Inclusion Week, CBAN hosted a Central Iowa Digital Equity Working Group meeting. A follow-up to an initial meeting in late August, the goal of the session was to continue efforts to map the digital equity ecosystem in central Iowa (where CBAN is headquartered) and discuss next steps for identifying and filling gaps in digital skills training, affordabiilty, access, and device distribution.

CBAN Digital Navigator Brianna Dillavou leads a discussion of the digital equity ecosystem in central Iowa.

CBAN is greatly appreciative of all the participants during Digital Inclusion Week. We've learned some valuable lessons on how to produce an effective virtual event and we look forward to applying those lessons to activities in the future!