The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is hosting a webinar on September 24th at 1pm ET to introduce the National Broadband Navigator, an innovative, public spatial-analysis tool designed to help community leaders plan broadband projects in areas currently underserved by high-speed internet. Learn more and register here, and please feel free to share with your networks.

More about the National Broadband Navigator:

The webinar will be presented by members of the Penn State Extension team that developed the tool with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. The BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) Broadband Navigator can be used to quickly conceptualize potential broadband projects, focus areas, and deployment cost estimation. The model allows users to rapidly identify areas with broadband deficiencies in parallel with demographic factors like age, poverty, healthcare access, minority status, nearby fiber optic cable, farm data, and even legislative districts. The tools are designed to enhance data-driven local broadband deployment conversations anywhere in the U.S. at no cost and includes the ability to download critical data for your local project.

https://nercrd.psu.edu/nercrd-webinar-to-focus-on-the-national-broadband-navigator-instrument/