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Discussion on expanding Big Apple Connect and digital equity initiatives
0:52:10
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Council Member Gutiérrez inquires about OTI's efforts to expand broadband access beyond existing NYCHA sites. Brett Sikoff from OTI responds by discussing the broader digital equity initiatives, including the digital equity roadmap.
- Sikoff mentions device offerings and digital literacy training courses as part of the holistic approach to digital equity.
- The Big Apple Connect program is described as the centerpiece of the city's digital equity goals.
- Sikoff attempts to redirect the conversation to the digital equity roadmap, but Gutiérrez steers it back to connectivity expansion.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:52:10
Is there efforts from OTI to expand beyond the existing NYCHA sites, the RAD PAC that you said that you're checking in with NYCHA about, and outside of this like Flume project?
Brett Sikoff
0:52:25
Yeah.
0:52:25
So I think it's important to note that there's there's other parts of the whole digital equity world, right?
0:52:31
Not just infrastructure, not just access to the Internet.
0:52:34
And that's really where our digital equity roadmap comes into play that highlights some of those initiatives, the device offerings, the digital literacy training courses that are available through city agencies across the city and libraries across the city, and that really are intended to kind of have the holistic digital equity So, certainly as you acknowledge and as we talked about, Big Apple Connect is a major, is the centerpiece to the city's digital equity goals and missions in an effort to bridge the digital divide.
0:53:05
But the digital equity roadmap, and if I may turn it over to Associate Commissioner Wright to talk a little bit about the digital equity roadmap and the initiatives there, I think that will highlight the efforts that are underway currently.