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,…
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 11/12 at 5:30PM PT led by Dr. Miriam Rahali titled “The Matter at Hand: Making a Call for More Evidence on Smartphone Bans in Schools“ About the Talk In 2005, Dr. Miriam Rahali was teaching in a New York City public high school when mayor Michael Bloomberg…
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 52nd Annual TPRC (The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy) Conference is right around the corner, taking place from September 19-21, 2024. Known for bringing together a diverse mix of policymakers, academics, corporate leaders, and civil society voices, TPRC is a leading conference for anyone focused on the future of communications policy.…
Two new journal articles by Prof. Hernan Galperin examine the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). “Welfare Stigma and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies” examines how welfare stigma affects uptake rates for consumer subsidy programs such as Lifeline and ACP. Co-authored with former USC Price doctoral student Heonuk Ha (now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute…
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…