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	<title>What All this Giant Federal Money Means from a Practical Perspective</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Digital Inclusion Thrives on Collaboration</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Join Chris Mitchell for another NC Broadband Matters podcast, this time featuring Christa Vinson, Program Officer for the Rural Broadband and Infrastructure program at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Amy Huffman, Policy Director at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA).  Christa is NC Broadband Matters immediate past President, and Amy played a critical role while at the NC Broadband Infrastructure office leading the state’s Homework Gap analysis and the NC Band Digital Equity Plan effort with the Institute for Emerging Issues. Christa and Amy discuss how Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity are finally being recognized at the national level, through both funding and policy mandates, while being seen as key components of workforce training and economic development. Underneath the growing explosion of these digital training programs – collaboration.]]></description>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Join Chris Mitchell for another NC Broadband Matters podcast, this time featuring Christa Vinson, Program Officer for the Rural Broadband and Infrastructure program at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Amy Huffman, Policy Director at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA).  Christa is NC Broadband Matters immediate past President, and Amy played a critical role while at the NC Broadband Infrastructure office leading the state’s Homework Gap analysis and the NC Band Digital Equity Plan effort with the Institute for Emerging Issues. Christa and Amy discuss how Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity are finally being recognized at the national level, through both funding and policy mandates, while being seen as key components of workforce training and economic development. Underneath the growing explosion of these digital training programs – collaboration.]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Join Chris Mitchell for another NC Broadband Matters podcast, this time featuring Christa Vinson, Program Officer for the Rural Broadband and Infrastructure program at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Amy Huffman, Policy Director at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA).  Christa is NC Broadband Matters immediate past President, and Amy played a critical role while at the NC Broadband Infrastructure office leading the state’s Homework Gap analysis and the NC Band Digital Equity Plan effort with the Institute for Emerging Issues. Christa and Amy discuss how Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity are finally being recognized at the national level, through both funding and policy mandates, while being seen as key components of workforce training and economic development. Underneath the growing explosion of these digital training programs – collaboration.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>How to Cope with the Tsunami of Broadband Funding Options</title>
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	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Why Can’t North Carolina’s Broadband Policies Mirror Arkansas?</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Erin and Chris discuss solutions, including how local businesses, hospitals, faith-based and educational leaders in our communities must make loud their public voices that North Carolina’s Republicans need to help solve the state’s broadband problem in this COVID environment the way the Arkansas Republicans just did.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Erin and Chris discuss solutions, including how local businesses, hospitals, faith-based and educational leaders in our communities must make loud their public voices that North Carolina’s Republicans need to help solve the state’s broadband problem in t]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>BAND NC – Banding Together to Remove NC’s Digital Divide</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[NC Hearts Gigabit]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[“This is not your fault. It is not your fault that you  [...]]]></description>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>AUDIO of NC Broadband Matters Nov 17 Webinar: the UPLOAD Crisis</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Average home upload usage grew 58% in the last year. Wh  [...]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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	<title>AUDIO of NC Broadband Matters August 10 Webinar: Next Steps in Broadband Planning with Land of Sky Regional Council and Southwestern Commission</title>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We bring our broadband planning discussion to the west  [...]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Episode 10: Doug Dawson on How COVID-19 Widened the Rural Broadband Divide and What this Tells us For Our Future</title>
	<link>https://ncheartsgigabit.com/podcast/episode-10-doug-dawson-on-how-covid-19-widened-the-rural-broadband-divide-and-what-this-tells-us-for-our-future/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[NC Hearts Gigabit]]></dc:creator>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[“People in the rural areas are not working from home be  [...]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>AUDIO of NC Broadband Matters June 1st Webinar: From Vision to Action-How to Find Private Partners and Funding</title>
	<link>https://ncheartsgigabit.com/podcast/audio-of-nc-broadband-matters-june-1st-webinar-from-vision-to-action-how-to-find-private-partners-and-funding/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[NC Hearts Gigabit]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[This is a 90 minute audiotape of NC Broadband Matters J  [...]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This is a 90 minute audiotape of NC Broadband Matters J  [...]]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a 90 minute audiotape of NC Broadband Matters J  [...]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a 90 minute audiotape of NC Broadband Matters J  [...]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Episode 09:  Legislative History of H129: Part 2 – How H129 Came About and the Lessons it Teaches</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[NC Hearts Gigabit]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[In Part 2 of this NC Broadband Matters webinar, Jack Co  [...]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In Part 2 of this NC Broadband Matters webinar, Jack Co  [...]]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Part 2 of this NC Broadband Matters webinar, Jack Co  [...]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In Part 2 of this NC Broadband Matters webinar, Jack Co  [...]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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