<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Below is a great opportunity to participate in town halls concerning broad band internet services.<div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Cindy Lou Ray<div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Emily Wharton <Emily.Wharton@blind.state.ia.us><br><b>Date:</b> March 23, 2023 at 4:41:00 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> president@icublind.org, Don Wirth <don.wirth@gmail.com>, Scott Van Gorp <svangorp@nfbi.org>, Cindy Ray <cindyray@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>FYI: FW: Town Hall Meetings on Digital Services</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, I have had a good conversation with this gentleman and he is working hard to get feedback and improve access to the digital world throughout the state. please share with anyone interested and/or impacted:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Friday, March 10, 2023 at 2:21 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jeff Berckes <jeff.berckes@iowa.gov><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Town Hall Meetings on Digital Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Starting on March 14th, the OCIO will commence a 55-stop public meeting roadshow to discuss broadband and digital equity issues. This will be the first time that many Iowans will be introduced to some of these concepts and we're eager to
hear from citizens about what they and their communities need most in negotiating issues in the digital space.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following link leads to a new page on our website for Digital Equity. It contains a slick map with geolocated dots that you can click on to pull up the date and location information for meetings across the state. A full table sorted
by date is located midway down the page after the body of the press release. All 55 meetings start at 6 pm.
<a href="https://ocio.iowa.gov/broadband/digital-equity">https://ocio.iowa.gov/broadband/digital-equity</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is a PDF of the same information. The only difference is the table is sorted alphabetically by city. One may be more useful to you or your network.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you to those that have already shared this information out to your networks (it's fun seeing this boomerang back to me!) and to those of you who have indicated interest in attending one or more of the meetings. I look forward to meeting
many of you in person instead of over a computer! For those of you receiving this information for the first time, please feel free to share with your networks and encourage attendance so that we can hear more voices at these meetings to inform our planning.
The program is designed to last about 90 minutes so we will work hard to get people on their way by 7:30 or so each night.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jeff Berckes</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Equity Coordinator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">200 E Grand Avenue | Des Moines, IA 50309 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">515.443.3873</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><a href="https://ocio.iowa.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">ocio.iowa.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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