[Air-L] NDIA Call for digital inclusion researchers

[Joly MacFie]

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From: Angela Siefer, NDIA (she, her)
Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM

Dear NDIA Affiliates and Friends,
For you to continue and scale as needed, new funding models must be
identified. For this to happen, the field of digital inclusion needs the
research community! Samantha Schartman and I explain this necessity in a
new article published by Broadband Breakfast -
https://www.digitalinclusion.org/blog/calltotheresearchcommunity/

Snippet -

We are calling on researchers, economists, and data scientists to work with
us in exploring questions such as:

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   What program models currently support long-term sustainability? We need
   real-world evaluations of which models work, and under what conditions.

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   How can we measure the economic value created through skill acquisition
   and adoption at the program or participant level? This might include
   income gains, employment outcomes, decreased benefit dependency, or cost
   savings to public and private systems.

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   What systems-level mechanisms can capture this value and reinvest it
   back into program funding? Are there ways to build repayment models,
   shared-benefit agreements, or other tools into the digital inclusion
   ecosystem?

These questions are not just academic. They are central to whether
communities will have the capacity to keep helping people access and
benefit from technology five, ten, or twenty years from now.
~Angela

Angela Siefer

Executive Director
National Digital Inclusion Alliance
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[image: emailAddress] angela at digitalinclusion.org
[image: website] www.digitalinclusion.org
Join us at Net Inclusion 2026, Feb. 3-5, in Chicago!
<https://www.digitalinclusion.org/netinclusion26/>

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