DeeNice Attends: MMTC Minority Media & Telecom Council Broadband and Social Justice Summit
by DeeNice on January 24, 2010
This was the inaugural MMTC Broadband and Social Justice Summit – at the Howard University, Blackburn Center, Washington DC. January 21 – 22, 2010.This ground-breaking summit provided a open discussion regarding the important civil right issues pertaining to the National Broadband Plan and narrowing the Digital Divide gap.
The National Broadband Plan will be released soon which means an exciting opportunity for communities throughout the United States to have equal access to the information highway.
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This was the inaugural MMTC Broadband and Social Justice Summit – at the Howard University, Blackburn Center, Washington DC. January 21 – 22, 2010.This ground-breaking summit provided a open discussion regarding the important civil right issues pertaining to the National Broadband Plan and narrowing the Digital Divide gap.
