
Bridging the US Digital Divide – Fairly Video
Bridging the U.S. Digital Divide Fairly: An interactive Tool for Broadband Program Officers and Policymakers Who are Preparing to Expand High-Speed Internet Across America
Understanding What’s Ahead for America’s Workforce—and How Policymakers, Educators, and Business Leaders Can Reinvent the Future of Work
Friday, March 27, 2026 | 11 AM – 12 Noon EST
Ginn Library, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave., Medford, MA

Bridging the U.S. Digital Divide Fairly: An interactive Tool for Broadband Program Officers and Policymakers Who are Preparing to Expand High-Speed Internet Across America

Featuring Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context, and co-author of the recent HBR article “50 Global Hubs for Top AI Talent.”

A network of researchers and doers, comprising academics, social entrepreneurs, AI analysts and global consultants, met and discussed the lessons learned from our digital lives around the world during the pandemic. Get a better picture of how we can get from there to a post-pandemic digital economy that works for everyone everywhere.

Why are we so divided about the true state of the digital divide in America? What steps might the Biden-Harris administration take to clarify the reality of this divide and move toward closing the gap? This webinar examines how these changes can be transformational for a recovering, yet socially distanced economy.

Immunity to pre-election social media misinformation, remote schooling, telehealth access, productive working-from-home: Who has it, and who doesn’t? What can be done? How can we ensure the nation’s digital and democratic health? This webinar seeks to answer these critical questions in order to get us to a more inclusive post-COVID, post-election America.

This webinar examines the key findings from the Uneven State of the Union study and how they can give policymakers and business leaders a sense of the future path of COVID-19 in the US, its ultimate economic impact, and what needs to be done next.

The inaugural IDEA 2030 webinar features insights from Digital Planet’s Social Distance Readiness Benchmark, focusing on how easily countries can enter and exit lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.