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San Jose adopts refreshed digital empowerment and broadband strategy, sets 1Gb aspirational goal
Summary
The council unanimously adopted a renewed digital empowerment and broadband strategy emphasizing partnerships, digital skills, affordability and a citywide aspirational target of 1-gigabit availability by 2030; staff will return with a status update in 2027.
San Jose's City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 16 to adopt a refreshed Digital Empowerment and Broadband Strategy that emphasizes public-private partnerships, digital skills training, affordability programs, community tech hubs and streamlined permitting as the primary tools to close the city's digital divide.
Library Director Jill Born and staff outlined three core goals: close the digital divide through empowerment and training, ensure universal broadband availability with an…
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