Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 4/22 at 5:00PM PT led by Dr. Nicole P. Marwell titled: “A New Approach to Measuring Digital Redlining” About the Talk The term “digital redlining” is often used to refer to different aspects of the structural exclusion of certain groups from the benefits of the Internet. Internet…
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 4/15 at 5:00PM PT led by Lilian Coral titled: “Trump’s Tech Governance: Making Sense of the Administration’s First 100 Days“ About the Talk At a time when there is a slew of new information surrounding the administration’s quick and vast executive actions, the Open Technology Institute (OTI)…
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 3/25 at 5:00PM PT led by Dr. V. Sridhar titled “My data or yours?”: Unravelling Multi-Party Privacy (MPP) amongst Consumers of Digital Credit in India About the Talk India has witnessed exponential growth in digital financial innovation. Digital credit, which forms a subset of digital financial services,…
In this new policy brief, Hernan Galperin and François Bar (with co-authors Arpit Gupta, Elizabeth Belding and Laasya Koduru from UCSB) establish comprehensive baseline measurements of service quality and pricing conditions in BEAD-eligible areas, and provide evidence-based insights into how policy changes, demand patterns, and market conditions interact to shape program outcomes. Based on a…
The 53rd Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy (formerly TPRC) is taking place September 18-20, 2025, and ARNIC will have a strong presence. Prof. Hernan Galperin and Prof. Francois Bar are co-authors, along with doctoral students Alex Alvarado Rojas and Siyi Zhou, of a paper about the assessment of broadband affordability in areas…
On February 7th, 2025, Professor Hernan Galperin delivered a keynote lecture at a seminar hosted by the University of Brasilia’s School of Law Center on Law and Regulation. His talk, Consumer Broadband Subsidies in the US: The Life and Death of the Affordable Connectivity Program, examined the effectiveness of broadband subsidies in expanding digital access…
The BEAD program is the flagship initiative of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to address inequalities in broadband access. Administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the program provides $42.45 billion to states and U.S. territories to expand high-speed Internet, primarily through direct grants to service operators. Congress established that the…
With the expiration of the ACP (Affordable Connectivity Program) benefit in May 2024, Lifeline remains the only alternative federal program that supports digital connectivity for low-income families. Yet for a variety of reasons, Lifeline enrollment has been declining since its peak in the early 2010s. One reason is the complex web of procedures to demonstrate…
Did ACP have a measurable impact on broadband access? Did the program help connect low-income families that otherwise would not have been connected? As the ACP program winds down, these questions become ever more important for policymakers and policy advocates. In this study, we offer preliminary evidence that ACP in fact helped increase broadband adoption…