Connect Your Community 2.0 is a collaboration among organizations who are determined to overcome the digital exclusion of hundreds of thousands of our neighbors in greater Cleveland and Detroit.

What’s “digital exclusion”, and why does it matter?

• New Census: No Internet connection for 52,000 Cleveland homes
• 2015 Census: “Fixed broadband” in only half of Cleveland, Detroit households
• FCC’s new data on 10 mbps connections shows stark city-suburb contrasts for Cleveland, Detroit
• Updated maps shows no-broadband majorities in most Cleveland and Detroit neighborhoods
• MetroHealth study finds “emerging inequality” in online health record adoption
• “The Broadband Divide in Cleveland: It’s About Incomes” (Federal Reserve presentation)
• Detroit and Cleveland are among the 25 worst-connected U.S. cities
• Mapping Cleveland’s digital divide
• Cuyahoga County Internet Survey

Coalition for Broadband Equity CYC 2.0 calls for digital inclusion investment as price of Comcast-Charter deal Coalition to FCC: Our cities need affordable rates, adoption investment More about Internet Essentials and “SpinCo” Cable firms respond to Coalition, promise low-income rates Coalition to FCC: Charter/GreatLand low-cost Internet promises are “far too vague” FCC sets 180-day “timeclock” for reviewing Charter-Time Warner merger Coalition: “New Charter” should offer $10 Internet for poor, $50 million a year to market it Charter unveils low-income rate proposal… no surprises, no training

Other projects and news ASC3 Connect Your Community Center Meaningful use: Helping low-digital-literacy patients learn to use their online medical records and communication tools CYC 2.0 testimony helps hold off “sink or swim” deadline for unemployed Ohioans to get on line (Plain Dealer story) National Digital Inclusion Alliance Supporting FCC Lifeline reform CYC comments submitted to Broadband Opportunity Council Under FCC pressure, AT&T promises $10 broadband for poor CYC supports FCC action on Lifeline broadband AT&T will launch $10 Internet for SNAP households on April 22 FCC takes a big step toward Lifeline broadband Slow AT&T service will block thousands of Cleveland, Detroit households from promised Access discounts AT&T will include slower Internet speeds in discount program after all, thanks to NDIA