December 8, 2026

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With the midterm elections behind us and long-stalled federal digital equity funds waiting on the horizon, it would be easy to assume the funding problem is solved. It isn’t. The spending rules and the timeline for those dollars are still unsettled for a program that’s already been cancelled once.

The next — and last — Building for Digital Equity (B4DE) livestream of 2026 will take on the question digital inclusion practitioners are still wrestling with: who pays for digital inclusion now?

Join us Tuesday, December 8, at 3 pm ET as the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community Broadband Networks Initiative and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) co-host: “Last Call for 2026: Who Pays for Digital Inclusion Now?”

Registration for the free webinar is now open above

Viewers will be able to weigh in on the discussion throughout, most prominently via the YouTube live chat. The livestream will be broadcast (and later archived) on ILSR’s and NDIA's YouTube channel, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Building for Digital Equity is a series of live stream events sponsored by UTOPIA Fiber and a podcast hosted by Community Broadband Networks team members featuring interviews with people working for digital inclusion and ensuring everyone can reap the benefits of the Internet. Our good friends at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) are often involved in the planning and hosting of these events. You can listen to episodes below, via a podcast application (search for "Building for Digital Equity"), or via this RSS feed.

Miss an event? No problem. Watch an archived version below, and send us your questions, comments, and ideas for the next one at broadband@muninetworks.org.