Digital Inclusion Resolution

Version 2: Updated on March 23rd, 2020

This document is a RESOLUTION in support of inclusiveness concerning Internet access, data privacy, and the delivery of digital services.

WHEREAS, Digital Inclusion is the assurance of accessible, available, affordable, relevant, privacy and equitable access to the World Wide Web (i.e., the Internet); and

WHEREAS, Internet access for all people is essential for the city to thrive in the digital economy; and

WHEREAS, Internet access enables this city's residents to utilize online educational opportunities and remote employment opportunities; and

WHEREAS, Internet access enables the people of this city to utilize digital resources and tools furnished by local, state and federal government agencies; and

WHEREAS, access to Internet-based educational tools serve as a means to employ strategies for data protection of the people of this city; and

WHEREAS, inequitable access to Internet resources would further damage emergency stricken communities; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, That this legislative body holds Digital Inclusion in high regard; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body favors affordable of Internet access for the people of this city; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body values available Internet-based goods and services for the people of this city; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body recognizes the importance of Internet-based goods and services in response to notable events including, but not limited to natural disasters and pandemics; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body holds in high regard data privacy and the digital protection of the people of this city; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body supports accessibility that ensures technologies help impaired or disabled individuals access and use the Internet; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this legislative body supports equitable Internet access for the people of this city.