<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/03/2020-19448/meeting-of-the-federal-advisory-committee-on-diversity-and-digital-empowerment">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/03/2020-19448/meeting-of-the-federal-advisory-committee-on-diversity-and-digital-empowerment</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">Friday, September 18, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.</b></div><div class="gmail_default"><h1 id="gmail-addresses" style="margin:20px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:22.7812px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(51,51,51);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><em style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/live" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(48,113,169);text-decoration-line:none;box-sizing:border-box">http://www.fcc.gov/live</a><span style="font-weight:normal">.</span></em><br></h1><p></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">The agenda for the meeting will include a report from each of the ACDDE working groups. The</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box">Access to Capital Working Group</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">will report on its ongoing examination of ways to improve access to capital to encourage management and ownership of broadcast properties by a diverse range of voices, including minorities and women. The</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box">Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">will discuss its work assessing access, adoption, and use of broadband and new technologies by under-resourced communities. The</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box">Diversity in the Tech Sector Working Group</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">will report on its progress in examining issues pertaining to hiring, promotion, and retention of women and minorities in tech industries. This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the ACDDE Chair and the DFO.</span></div><p id="gmail-p-9" class="gmail-" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 30px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.7em;overflow:visible;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The Committee's mission is to provide recommendations to the Commission on how to empower disadvantaged communities and accelerate the entry of small businesses, including those owned by women and minorities, into the media, digital news and information, and audio and video programming industries, including as owners, suppliers, and employees.</p><p id="gmail-p-10" class="gmail-" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 30px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.7em;overflow:visible;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The ACDDE meeting is accessible to the public on the internet via live feed from the FCC's web page at <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/live" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(48,113,169);text-decoration-line:none;box-sizing:border-box">www.fcc.gov/live</a>.</em> Members of the public may submit comments to the ACDDE using the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System, ECFS, at <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/ecfs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(48,113,169);text-decoration-line:none;box-sizing:border-box">www.fcc.gov/ecfs</a>.</em> Comments to the ACDDE should be filed in GN Docket No. 17-208.</p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px">Open captioning will be provided for this event.</span></div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie  +<span title="Call with Google Voice">2185659365</span> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div>-</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie  +<span title="Call with Google Voice">2185659365</span> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div>-</div></div></div></div></div></div>