GWV’s Digital Equity Work

GWV’s Broadband work focuses on planning and supporting communities to access funds to build broadband infrastructure and to address barriers, such as affordability and lack of digital skills that must be overcome so West Virginians have meaningful connectivity and all that it enables (National Digital Inclusion Alliance).

What is Digital Inclusion?

Digital Inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities have access to and use of Information and Communications Technologies. Digital Inclusion must evolve as technology advances. Digital Inclusion requires intentional strategies and investments to reduce and eliminate historical, institutional, and structural barriers to access and use technology.

Digital Equity Plans

As part of Connect Humanity’s Appalachia Digital Accelerator project, Generation West Virginia, WV Office of Broadband, and Regional Optical Communications worked with  18 counties to develop county-level digital equity plans that will help stakeholders secure the partnerships and grant funding needed to meet their community’s digital inclusion goals.

Digital Equity Grants are opening in Spring 2025!

If you are interested in applying to the WV Office of Broadband Capacity Subgrant programs for Digital Skills, Device Distribution, or Digital Equity Planning, or any other broadband or digital equity funding source, feel free to reach out to our team! We can provide project development support and technical assistance. If you’re interested, please let us know via the form below! 

Meet Annie

Annie Stroud is the GWV Broadband Program Director. If you have questions about GWV’s Broadband initiatives, ask Annie! Regardless if a Digital Equity Plan is listed for your community above, we can help connect you to resources, technical assistance, and potential funding opportunities.