Microsoft Digital Equity Data Maps
Microsoft released a new interactive tool to help identify places in the United States with significant digital equity gaps.Created by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab and in the spirit of leaning deep into data to help solve hard problems, the dashboard creates one of the most complete pictures of digital equity in the United States to date.
How it works: The dashboard goes census tract by census tract, examining 20 different indicators of digital equity -- such as broadband access, usage, education, and poverty rates, aggregating public data from the Census Bureau, FCC, BroadbandNow and Microsoft’s own broadband usage data. This data, taken together, provides an aggregated “score” of digital inequity in the community.
Why it matters: The dashboard was created with the best data possible as a resource to assist policymakers in identifying key places and communities within their state so they can direct funding and programmatic investments. We hope that this dashboard will empower policymakers to implement programs that foster sustainable and inclusive economic opportunity and deliver on this fundamental need to close the digital divide.
Read the blog announcement:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/07/14/digital-inequity-dashboard-broadband-access/
Access Microsoft Digital Equity data maps for all states: LINK
How it works: The dashboard goes census tract by census tract, examining 20 different indicators of digital equity -- such as broadband access, usage, education, and poverty rates, aggregating public data from the Census Bureau, FCC, BroadbandNow and Microsoft’s own broadband usage data. This data, taken together, provides an aggregated “score” of digital inequity in the community.
Why it matters: The dashboard was created with the best data possible as a resource to assist policymakers in identifying key places and communities within their state so they can direct funding and programmatic investments. We hope that this dashboard will empower policymakers to implement programs that foster sustainable and inclusive economic opportunity and deliver on this fundamental need to close the digital divide.
Read the blog announcement:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/07/14/digital-inequity-dashboard-broadband-access/
Access Microsoft Digital Equity data maps for all states: LINK
