• Leslie Durham, Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman for the Delta Regional Authority

  • Sep 1 2022
  • Duración: 1 h y 22 m
  • Podcast

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Leslie Durham, Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman for the Delta Regional Authority

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  • 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. chats with Leslie Ann Durham, the Alternate Federal Co-Chairwoman of the 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 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, 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. Then, join our lively community discussions and connect with others in the broadband grants community at discuss.broadband.money.com.

    For more broadband grant resources, check out Broadband.money's Resource Center.

    Scott D. Woods and Sarah Lai Stirland produced the episode. Thanks to Christopher Egusa for engineering help. 

    Music from: Worldwide Beats and Aries Beats.

    Jase Wilson and Mike Faloon are the Co-Founders of Ready.net and Broadband.money.


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