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Delaware Spends $56 Million on Broadband-for-All Effort

The funding is being made available through broadband infrastructure grants awarded to Comcast, Verizon and Mediacom, which will expand their coverage areas to reach an additional 11,600 homes and businesses.

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Harvard Students Create Website Matching Ukrainian Refugees with International Hosts

Ukraine Take Shelter launched on March 3. Within a week more than 4,000 people had created listings offering shelter to Ukrainian refugees. To date, there have been more than one million users on Ukraine Take Shelter and over 25,000 listings. Short- and long-term hosts across the world have offered whatever they can, from living room couches and spare bedrooms to entire homes and apartments.

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Queensland Picks Up New Digital Chief

McLaren, who is currently country head for consultancy marketplace XpertiseNow in the US, will join the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy in Australia early next month.

Staff Reporter 2 min read Human Resources

Manchester Universities’ SPRITE+ Network Secures Grant to Develop Its Work

SPRITE+ was created in 2019, as part of the EPSRC’s Digital Economy programme, to foster engagement between academic and non-academic communities and provide a platform for building interdisciplinary collaborations to address challenges related to the future of digital trust, identity, privacy, and security (TIPS).

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Saskatchewan Sets Out on Path to Digital IDs

There has also been growing momentum for a national digital ID program in Canada. The Canadian Bankers Association recently advocated for the creation of a federated identity system, while the DIACC has published a Pan-Canadian Trust Framework in an effort to establish comprehensive standards for digital IDs within the country.

Staff Reporter 2 min read Policy & Governance