PBDA Updates

• Digital Equity Plan public comment now open! Comments can be submitted here
• Virtual Feedback Sessions:
  • 12.18.23 – Southwest PA Focused
  • 12.18.23 –  Statewide
• Subcommittee and Board meeting schedule is here

NTIA Updates

• All state plans and proposals can be found here

Coalition Building – rebrand to Keystone Internet Coalition (KIC) 

• PA “launch letter” and mission statement – nearly finalized for January 2 launch; email Jen with questions, comments, concerns
• Consider what contacts you want to include in initial communication/invitation to join coalition – early January invitations to join our Feb 6 2024 virtual gathering
• Meeting cadence for 2024 – discussion

ACP Outreach

• NDIA’s Advocating for Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) webpage 
• Recent Public Utility Commission memo to PA Congressional Delegation re: ACP 
• Congressional Delegation Outreach 
  •  sample letter; edits welcome (drafted by Drew Garner, Common Sense Media)
  • Congressional Delegation Contacts – ACP/tech staffers

FCC filing on proposed rulemaking change 

• ISPs from Title I to Title II under FCC oversight; does anyone have working knowledge of this? (me, David Berman. Wrote a book about NN, etc.)

See you at our first meeting for 2024 – Tuesday, January 9, 3pm