Fiber for Breakfast 2023 Week 36 – Bringing Home the Bacon: Connecting the Tar Heel State

Nate Denny, Deputy Secretary of the N.C. Department of Information Technology’s Broadband and Digital Equity Division, will provide details about how North Carolina is closing the digital divide by expanding access to affordable, high-speed internet in every corner of the state, ensuring it is equitably adopted, and making sure that residents are enabled to use it for everyday necessities. On this Fiber for Breakfast, Nate will speak to the impact on more than 100,000 households and 3,300 businesses across the state that will receive high-speed internet access through the recently-awarded $260 million in Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grants and will share information on the upcoming $400 million Completing Access to Broadband program. Through these federal American Rescue Plan Act-funded programs, as well as the additional funding programs coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, North Carolina is planning to connect the entire state by the end of 2027.

Webinar Guest

Nate Denny was named Deputy Secretary of the N.C. Department of Information Technology’s Broadband and Digital Equity Division in May 2021. He previously served as NCDIT’s chief of staff and legislative director. Before joining NCDIT in 2017, Nate was a presidential appointee at the U.S. General Services Administration in Washington, D.C., where he served as deputy chief of staff, director of intergovernmental affairs and senior advisor for congressional affairs.