Broadband Plan To Feature Digital Literacy Corps Proposal

The FCC’s national broadband plan to be delivered to Congress next week will recommend that Congress fund a Digital Literacy Corps, similar to AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps, which will send “digital ambassadors” out into communities to help people gain the skills and information they need to go online, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said today at a Digital Inclusion Summit co-sponsored by the FCC and Knight Foundation.

“Using people from within the community to help their neighbors can go a long way to ensuring that people are able to use the Internet safely, and to its fullest potential,” Commissioner Clyburn said.