[Governance] WEBCAST TODAY - FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment

[Joly MacFie]

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/03/2020-19448/meeting-of-the-federal-advisory-committee-on-diversity-and-digital-empowerment

*Friday, September 18, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.*
 *http://www.fcc.gov/live <http://www.fcc.gov/live>.*


The agenda for the meeting will include a report from each of the ACDDE
working groups. The *Access to Capital Working Group* 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 *Digital Empowerment and
Inclusion Working Group* will discuss its work assessing access, adoption,
and use of broadband and new technologies by under-resourced communities.
The *Diversity in the Tech Sector Working Group* 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.

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.

The ACDDE meeting is accessible to the public on the internet via live feed
from the FCC's web page at *www.fcc.gov/live
<http://www.fcc.gov/live>.* Members
of the public may submit comments to the ACDDE using the FCC's Electronic
Comment Filing System, ECFS, at *www.fcc.gov/ecfs
<http://www.fcc.gov/ecfs>.* Comments to the ACDDE should be filed in GN
Docket No. 17-208.
Open captioning will be provided for this event.

-- 
--------------------------------------
Joly MacFie  +2185659365
--------------------------------------
-

-- 
--------------------------------------
Joly MacFie  +2185659365
--------------------------------------
-
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20200918/fb4feb12/attachment.htm>