The City of Seattle Community Technology and Technology Matching Fund (TMF) programs began in the 1990s. We more fully integrated an equity approach into our work in 2015, when the City launched the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative. The goal at that time was to research and develop a plan to help ensure all Seattleites had access to, and were proficient in, using digital technologies.

The COVID pandemic shined a bright light on this work. During the pandemic, the City Council passed Resolution 3956, which expanded and rebranded the City’s Digital Equity efforts as Internet for All Seattle . The resulting Internet for All Action Plan contained 49 Action Items. Four primary goals of the Action Plan were:

Support Seattle Public Schools’ efforts to increase and improve student-househo

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