The Ready or Not? podcast highlights the people and organizations who are putting in the work to close the digital divide in local communities - community leaders, local service providers, government representatives and national advocates.
Scott Woods was joined by Patrick McGuire, Christine Burkette, Aaron Schill, and Alonso Melendez during NDIA's NetInclusion Philadelphia conference, where the group discussed digital equity, digital inclusion, and more.
28 Apr 2023
Ready or Not? Episode 5: Bob Knight and Kim McKinley Go All In
American Association for Public Broadband Co-Founders Bob Knight and Kim McKinley joined the Ready or Not? Podcast with Scott Woods and Shannan Williams-Mitchem during the National League of Cities Conference. Over the better part of two hours, they discussed captivating topics like open access, municipal broadband efforts, and Kim's dating life.
17 Apr 2023
Ready or Not? Episode 7: Joe Valandra talks about Tribal Ready and what it means to act sovereign
Joe Valandra joins Scott and Shannan on Ready or Not? to talk about the importance of tribal sovereignty and the work Tribal Ready is doing to get Indian Country connected to broadband.
22 Mar 2023
Ready or Not? Episode 6: Mignon Clyburn gets real about equity and making meaningful change
Mignon Clyburn joins Scott and Shannan on Ready or Not? to talk her time at the FCC, the revolving door between the telecom industry and government, and making meaningful change for communities that have been historically marginalized.
3 Mar 2023
Ready or Not Episode 5: James Neal explains the role of libraries in preserving digital dignity
James Neal joins Ready or Not to talk access, equity, and libraries.
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17 Feb 2023
Ready or Not Episode 4: Shannan Williams-Mitchem talks community outreach at Ready.net
Ready or Not returns with Episode 4, featuring Shannan Williams-Mitchem Director of Community Outreach and Research @ Ready.net
Broadband.money presenting at the USCM ( https://www.c-span.org/video/?c505357).
1 Nov 2022
Joshua Williams, Executive Fellow/Digital Inclusion Lead in the Office of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
Joshua Williams is an executive fellow/digital inclusion lead in the office of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Joshua understands the importance of collecting empirical data for broadband mapping. He also authored the paper "Developing a Digital Equity Office to Close Digital Divides."
As digital inclusion lead, Joshua helped Houston establish an Office of Digital Equity. The office helps the city's residents get affordable access to the internet. Joshua started the job in January 2021. Scott talks to him about the experience.
1 Sept 2022
Leslie Durham, Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman for the Delta Regional Authority
The Ready or Not? podcast features the people who are toiling behind the scenes to close the digital divide. This week, Ready.net's VP for Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Scott D. Woods, Esq (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdwoodsesq/). chats with Leslie Ann Durham, the Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman of the Delta Regional Authority (https://dra.gov/about-dra/about-delta-regional-authority/). The DRA is economic development agency that covers eight states and 252 counties and parishes along the Mississippi river.
States that DRA covers include Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides $150 million (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr3684/text/enr#link=J_III_~T20&nearest=HF8EE0CB7E8E9400EA5E1FA1512DA151D)to the DRA for economic development. Durham says that the commission plans to make broadband a big part of its economic development strategy. The plan is to fill in holes that may be left by state broadband plans, and to provide match funding for federal grants.
Durham provides on-the-ground insights and anecdotes about how and why local coordination is crucial to successful broadband deployments, why digital literacy initiatives are important, how DRA works to provide match funding for federal grants that states may win, how Starlink has been really helpful during and after natural disasters, what the DRA is doing with mapping, and more.
For more information and resources, please visit Broadband.money (https://broadband.money/), where you can learn more about broadband grants and digital inclusion. You'll also be able to explore your local connectivity profiles through our broadband maps and portals (https://www.broadband.money/state-broadband-grant-portals). Then, join our lively community discussions and connect with others in the broadband grants community at discuss.broadband.money.com (https://discuss.broadband.money/home).
For more broadband grant resources, check out Broadband.money's Resource Center. (https://broadband.money/resources)
Scott D. Woods and Sarah Lai Stirland produced the episode. Thanks to Christopher Egusa for engineering help.
Music from: Worldwide Beats (https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldwideBeats)and Aries Beats (https://soundcloud.com/aries4rce).
Jase Wilson and Mike Faloon are the Co-Founders of Ready.net and Broadband.money.
5 Aug 2022
How a 45 day telecom outage in one of Detroit's low income neighborhoods led to a pioneering $11 million broadband experiment
The Ready or Not? podcast features the people who are toiling behind the scenes to close the digital divide.
The show's host is Ready.net and Broadband.money's Scott D. Woods, Esq (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdwoodsesq/). He is the company's VP for Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships.
He is a former senior staffer, and the Inaugural Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA.
This inaugural show's special guest is Joshua Edmonds (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua234/), Director of Digital Inclusion for Detroit, Michigan.
In future episodes, Scott will talk to local community leaders, local service providers, government representatives, and national advocates. You'll hear the perspectives and opinions from those who do the work of connecting the unserved and the underserved.
This show will shine the spotlight on those who are building the networks and implementing digital equity programs to ensure everyone can participate in the modern digital economy. But it will also have a lighter side. Scott's guests will share their personal insights and their journeys. The discussion will stay relatively fun and informal.
For more information and resources, please visit Broadband.money (https://broadband.money), where you can learn more about broadband grants and digital inclusion. You'll also be able to explore your local connectivity profiles through our broadband maps and portals (https://www.broadband.money/state-broadband-grant-portals). Then, join our lively community discussions and connect with others in the broadband grants community at discuss.broadband.money.com (https://discuss.broadband.money/home).
For more on the Hope Village internet outage experience and its open access network, read this Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce article (https://www.detroitchamber.com/hope-village-is-ground-zero-for-citys-11-1-million-pilot-project-to-tackle-digital-divide/).
For more broadband grant resources, check out Broadband.money's Resource Center. (https://broadband.money/resources)
Scott D. Woods and Sarah Lai Stirland produced the episode. Chris Egusa engineered it.
Music from: Worldwide Beats (https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldwideBeats)and Aries Beats (https://soundcloud.com/aries4rce).
Jase Wilson and Mike Faloon are the Co-Founders of Ready.net and Broadband.money.
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