We’re excited to share new research commissioned by Comcast and conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on the tremendous impact Digital Navigators make in our communities. A basic definition of a Digital Navigator is anyone who helps someone get online and learn how to navigate the Internet. It’s what many of you do every day. However, with the introduction of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides a $30/month credit toward Internet and mobile services, the role of Digital Navigators who raise awareness and get people connected has never been more important.
Broderick Johnson, Comcast’s EVP of Public Policy & EVP of Digital Equity will host and introduce our speakers. Next, Hannah Hill and Matt Kalmus from BCG will present the findings from this promising new study, “A Human Approach to Closing the Digital Divide.” Finally, Kimmel Proctor and Dawn Hannah, CEO and CPO of Beyond Literacy, will be in conversation with Diamond Pitts, client and Internet Essentials customer. Together, they’ll share their experiences as part of a successful Digital Navigator program that opened a world of opportunities online.
Each year, Internet Essentials delivers an annual progress report so our customers, community-based partners, government officials, and employees can dive deeper into how our program makes a difference in the lives of millions of people. The release of the new Internet Essentials Progress Report will coincide with this Partner Webinar broadcast.
As a key component of Project UP, Comcast’s $1 billion commitment to advance digital equity and build a future of unlimited possibilities, Internet Essentials is Comcast’s signature community impact initiative. The program is designed to close the digital divide by offering Internet service at home for $9.95/month + tax, subsidized computers, and free digital skills training in person, online, and in print. Since 2011, we have connected more than 10 million people to low-cost, high-speed Internet at home. Internet Essentials works in tandem with a network of thousands of community-based organizations, libraries, schools, and nonprofit partners across the country to raise awareness of the importance of Internet for schoolwork, employment, and skills training to prepare people for the digital economy.
To learn more about our program, visit our customer site at InternetEssentials.com.
For more information on our program, please visit InternetEssentials.com
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Rehema Ellis
Chief Education Correspondent, NBC News
Rehema Ellis was named the chief education correspondent at NBC News in 2010. She played an integral part of the groundbreaking NBC News’ “Education Nation” initiative. Her reports appear on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Today, and MSNBC.
Ellis was part of the NBC Emmy award-winning coverage of the plane crash in the Hudson River called, Miracle on the Hudson. She also won an Emmy for her reporting on the 2008 Presidential Election of Barack Obama and the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Ellis has been part of other headliner stories including the attacks on the World Trade Center. She was the first person to identify the attack on the air as “Nine-Eleven”. She’s reported on Hurricane Katrina, the death of Michael Jackson and the Haiti earthquake.
As a correspondent for NBC, Ellis traveled to Zaire to report on the mass killings that left an estimated one million people dead in Rwanda. A few years later she spent a month in Greece covering the summer Olympics.
Ellis joined NBC NEWS in 1994 as a general assignment correspondent. She began her broadcast career at KDKA Radio and TV in Pittsburgh. Later, she worked in Boston at WHDH-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor.
She is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Journalism. Ellis is also an honorary Board Member of Horizons National, an educational summer enrichment program serving low-income students across the country.
Born in North Carolina, and raised in Boston, she graduated from Simmons College in Boston and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
Ellis currently lives in New York City with her teenage son.
