Fwd: FW: dcConnectHome Local Summit Invitation

[kelli shewmaker]

Hi everyone,

See the email below about a summit next Monday, 11/2, related to a program to provide broadband service in HUD housing.

Thanks,

Kelli

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From: Capozzi, John (OCTO) <john.c...@dc.gov>
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:04 PM
Subject: FW: dcConnectHome Local Summit Invitation
To: "Capozzi, John (OCTO)" <john.c...@dc.gov>

FYI for Monday

 

From: Kelley, Robert (EOM-Intern)
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 6:31 PM
To: Capozzi, John (OCTO)
Cc: kc...@dchousing.org; Talamante, Tomás (EOM)
Subject: dcConnectHome Local Summit Invitation

 

Executive Office of the Mayor, Office of the Senior Advisor

John Wilson Building | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue | Washington, DC 20004

 

 

Dear John Capozzi,

 

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) invite you to the dcConnectHome Local Summit on Monday, November 2^nd at 9AM.

 

The  District of Columbia was one of 28 communities nationwide selected to participate in ConnectHome, a new initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the mission of narrowing the digital divide for children and families living in HUD-assisted housing. ConnectHome is the next step in a national effort to expand access and use of high speed broadband and builds on the efforts of the Obama Administration’s ConnectED initiative to connect 99% of K-12 students to high speed internet in classrooms and libraries.   The program looks to reach over 275,000 low-income households nationwide, including nearly 200,000 children, with the support they need to access the internet at home.

 

In the District of Columbia, work is already underway to bridge the digital divide for low-income families and dcConnectHome will enhance existing efforts with a focus on the DCHA public and assisted housing households.  Critical to the success of this endeavor is collaboration across all sectors of our community and the goal of the November 2^nd dcConnectHome Summit is to work on the plan that will serve as the roadmap for this important work.

 

Event details below:

 

dcConnectHome Local Summit

Monday, November 2^nd 2015

9AM-12PM ET

 

R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center at St. Elizabeth’s

2730 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE

Washington, District of Columbia 20032

 

To rsvp please go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/dcconnecthome-local-summit-tickets-19172875587

 

If you cannot attend please let us know if you will be sending an alternate. A formal invite with sample agenda will follow.

 

 

 

 

 

[Greg Bloom]

Kelli, thanks for sharing. 

John, is it possible that you could give us some spoilers for this event? Perhaps clarify the technical details of this broadband initiative? Is this about running fiber from the DC Community Access Network to HUD properties, or is this offering more discount coupons for a year of 3mb Comcast service, or... ?

Thanks for any insight you can give.

~greg

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