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On March 15 and 21, the CBO hosted it's Advance Industry and Community Roundtable meetings. In order to maintain a regular cadence of communication with our partners, the CBO holds these Roundtable meetings bi-monthly. The slides and recordings from March's Industry and Community Roundtable discussions can be found below. The next Roundtable discussions will take place in May 2023.

Advance Industry Roundtable (March 15)

On Feb. 22, Lt. Governor Primavera announced a statewide initiative to increase awareness of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a long-term benefit to help eligible households pay for high-speed internet, with support from EducationSuperHighway. Seventy one (71) partner cities, community-based organizations and trusted institutions around Colorado were invited to participate in the initiative.

Read the full press release.

We are very excited to launch the Colorado Broadband Office Mapping Hub (Hub)! The Hub is now available at broadbandhub.colorado.gov and is an easy-to-use resource for the public, internet service providers (ISPs), schools, communities and businesses around Colorado for their broadband education and planning purposes.

A timeline is now available for the Broadband Deployment Board’s (BDB) 2023 Winter & Summer Grant Cycles. After spending the past few months collecting and incorporating stakeholder input and recommendations on process improvements, the BDB has officially kicked off the 2023 Grant year with updated Policies and Guidance documents.

We are excited to announce the Broadband Ready Community Program. This program will create an opportunity for communities in Colorado to become “broadband ready” ahead of upcoming historic federal funding disbursement. Through the past year of stakeholder engagement, we have gathered that local communities could greatly benefit from a guided approach to understanding their broadband needs as they begin to plan long-term projects. We have developed a list of tasks (Broadband Ready Community Checklist- see below) that communities can adopt on their way to becoming broadband ready.

On January 17 and 25, the CBO hosted it's Advance Industry and Community Roundtable meetings. In order to establish a regular cadence of communication with our partners, the CBO will hold these Roundtable meetings bi-monthly. The slides and recordings from January's Industry and Community Roundtable discussions can be found below. The next Roundtable discussions will take place in March 2023.

Advance Industry Roundtable (Jan. 17)

New Board Policies, Forms, and Guidance Document

Versions of the Guidance Document, BDB policies and relevant forms for use can be found on our website.

Updated on December 8:

On Dec. 7, the CBO Data Team hosted the second webinar in our Broadband Data & Mapping Webinar series, focused on understanding the FCC Map & challenge processes. We discussed:

Overview of the FCC Map & Data

• How to use the map
• How to use the data

Overview of Challenges

• Types of challenges
• How to submit challenges

View Presentation Slides

Conclusion of the Winter 2022 Grant Cycle