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Institute for Emerging Issues opens 2021 BAND-NC grant applications

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Mar 25, 2021

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) is now accepting a new round of BAND-NC grant funding applications. Here are the details.

As Emerging Issues Forum goes virtual, a look back at its history of dealing with hot issues

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Feb 12, 2021

What started in 1986 as a request by the late Chancellor Bruce Poulton to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. to create an annual forum to address emerging issues has grown into a lively nonpartisan institute with a dozen and a half staffers, led since 2017 by Director Leslie Boney. Here’s a look at the Emerging Issues Forum as organizers prepare for the 35th annual event.

LimeLight: Institute for Emerging Issues secures grants from Corning for broadband initiative

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Jan 26, 2021

The Institute for Emerging Issues has secured new investment from Corning Incorporated to extend digital inclusion grants to communities across North Carolina. The $10,000 contribution will support BAND-NC, a grant program designed to increase the number of North Carolinians with internet in their homes, with the goal of making the state “first in digital inclusion.”

Emerging Issues Forum will be more ambitious than any previous event – here’s why

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Jan 8, 2021

If we are going to address our biggest challenges, we need to find a way to connect as never before – across lines of politics, race, geography, economics. The Emerging Issues Forum offers an opportunity to do that.

Pushing policy forward amid a pandemic – local legislators working to create digital inclusion for citizens across the state

Posted by Latisha Catchatoorian | Sep 24, 2020

Though it existed before the pandemic, the state’s digital divide is in the spotlight as the reliance on connectivity dramatically increases. Local policymakers and organizations are working to create digital inclusion for those who do not have access to the Internet or devices and bridge the widening divide.

Institute for Emerging Issues director offers a few sips from an oasis of optimism

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Aug 29, 2020

Our “Connecting in Crisis” webinars were a weekly witness to the power of realistic optimism. We heard from folks working to save businesses, connect schoolkids, protect the vulnerable, keep the water on, feed the hungry, find the lost, address equity and fix systems. The heroes, it turned out, fit no profile: they were men and women, black, brown and white, rural and urban, students and seniors. They are a reason for optimism.

NC State’s Institute for Emerging Issues launching a grant to help bridge digital divide

Posted by Latisha Catchatoorian | Aug 19, 2020

The digital divide has been emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic as the world shifts to an even heavier reliance on connectivity. The Institute for Emerging Issues is launching a grant to help foster digital inclusion and make sure that communities aren’t getting left behind.

11 counties land $5K BAND-NC grants to help ‘bridge the digital divide’

Posted by WRAL News | Aug 18, 2020

BAND-NC is a grant program designed to increase the number of people with the internet in their homes, with the goal of making the state “first in digital inclusion.”