It's Time To Connect the Rest of America
High-speed broadband is a vital part of our 21st-century infrastructure, but more than 19 million rural Americans don’t have adequate access—and as many as 162.8 million Americans don’t access the internet at broadband speeds. You can help close the digital divide and connect more Americans to educational, employment, and business opportunities to keep our economy growing.
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Voices for Innovation’s Executive Briefings provide weekly updates on technology policy and news, including highlights from Capitol Hill, breaking tech news, clips of relevant articles from traditional and new media, and a roundup of thought leader quotes and tweets.
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Sensible Public Policies Needed for Facial Recognition
Recently, Microsoft President Brad Smith called for “governments in 2019 to start adopting laws to regulate” facial recognition. He discussed this issue as well at an event at the Brookings Institution in ...
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@vfiorg @BradSmi - Senator Chuck Schumer today taking about rural broadband issue and the importance of all American having high speed broadband at home. Thank you #Microsoft @BradSmi for your continued effort to move this forward..
Mississippi expands STEM education in schools #STEM https://t.co/N69bbx1oHD
This is a big deal. #broadband access in underserved communities (rural and urban) improves health & education, inceases job skills and crop yields, the list goes on. https://t.co/F5hZayJ8fW
Ahead of the Christchurch Call to Action meeting, I spoke with Brad Smith of @Microsoft about how governments & social media platforms each have a responsibility to do more to eliminate terrorism and violent extremism online. More on our call: https://t.co/ccBJ5GNkoX
Microsoft is proud to sign the Christchurch Call and commit to nine concrete steps to fight violent extremist content online. https://t.co/chba2JsmZL
Voices for Innovation on Capitol Hill
Voices for Innovation members came to Washington, DC to meet with their members of Congress and the House Small Business Committee and advocate for 21st century technology policies.
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Technology Brings Internet to Underserved Communities Though the United States is a global technology leader, roughly 25 million Americans—including more than 19 million in rural communities—do not have adequate, affordable access to high-speed internet. Credit: Wall Street Journal Without (...)
The United States leads the world in technology innovation, but this leadership is jeopardized by insufficient support for computer science education in our nation’s K-12 schools. We cannot maintain an innovation-driven economy and prepare students for future success in the digital economy if (...)
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Voices for Innovation (VFI) is a Microsoft supported community of technology professionals and everyday Americans who help advance technology, IT job growth, and businesses of all sizes. As empowered citizen advocates, we work together to shape public policies for our 21st century digital economy and society.