Hello, everyone. Welcome and good afternoon. My name is Alejandra Costa. I'm a policy analyst in our higher education team at New America. Welcome to our event on Pell Student Eligibility for the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program hosted by New America's Open Technology Institute and Higher Education Program. Today we're excited to talk about the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a subsidy program implemented by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic to address challenges in accessing broadband. Through this program, people can receive up to a $50 credit to use toward internet services and up to a $75 credit for those who live on tribal lands. And college students who receive the programs can get this benefit too. During the pandemic, millions of Americans struggled to get online during a time when most of life was completely virtual and college students were no exception. I want to open this event by personifying the issue and telling you about who today's college students really are. College students today are more diverse than ever, and most don't fit into our historical image of the 18-year-old student who just moved out of their parents' home, lives in a four-year college campus dorm, and eats at the campus dining hall. In reality, most of today's college students are more diverse, they are older, and they have many responsibilities outside of school. Very few students fit that traditional image that still lives in many of our minds. These days, only 13% of college students live on a college campus, and 37% of all college students are over 25 years old. That fresh out of high school college student that can focus on school and clubs is increasingly in the minority. Instead, nearly half of today's college students are financially independent. This means that they financially support themselves and do not depend on their parents for money. Over two-thirds of college students work while in college so that they can financially support themselves, and 40% go to school part-time so that they can work and take care of their various responsibilities outside of college classes. Despite working while in school, 31% of students live at or below the federal poverty level. Today's students have responsibilities beyond themselves too. They are currently a quarter of all college students and are raising children or taking classes. For them, it's not just about deciding what to major in or what classes to take next semester, but about managing children's needs and schedules on top of their own school and life responsibilities. Today's college students are also more racially diverse than ever. The Black Student Enrollment has increased 72% between 2000 and 2010, and Latinx student enrollment increased 240% since 1996. Nearly half of today's college students are students of color. Unfortunately, students of color are more likely to be low income and attend part-time. Many are first generation college students as well. And being a student of color comes with many challenges due to the systemic racism in our country. College students today have a lot on their plate and have always faced many challenges, but the pandemic brought these issues, including broadband access issues to light. When colleges made the rapid pivot online, many students who did not have broadband access at home lost the resources they used on their college campuses to get online, like computer labs and campus white farm. Students and their colleges did what they could to make it work, and many colleges provided students with hotspots. Some students even drove to their campus parking lots to access the campus Wi-Fi from their cars. Even students who already had Wi-Fi or were given those hotspots struggled them. Their connection proved to be too weak to support multiple people like roommates, siblings, or school-aged children who were all trying to get online for school and work at the same time. Many students struggled to watch a live lecture and would get bumped out of the session because of their weak broadband. Others would hear every other word. Still, others had to sacrifice their own class and study time so that someone else in their home could have access to the internet and therefore their classes will work. What's worse is that these challenges were not felt equally across college students. Students of color, low-income students, and rural students struggled to get online much more than their white, wealthier, and urban counterparts. A May 2020 survey by Digital Promise, a congressionally authorized nonprofit organization, found that students of color and low-income students had internet connectivity issues more than white students and students from households earning over $100,000. 23% and 17% of Black and Latin American students respectively struggled connectivity, while only 12% of white students did. And in New America's recent nationally representative survey, varying degrees, 57% of all respondents said that college would be a challenge if they did not have stable high-speed internet. That's already a lot, but for Latin Neckis college students and caregiving students, this number was higher. Nearly two-thirds of Latin Neckis college student respondents and caregiving student respondents in our survey said college would be a challenge if they did not have stable high-speed internet. The digital divide does not affect all college students equally. Even students who live in areas with strong broadband can struggle with connectivity because they can't afford it. That's where a program like the Emergency Broadband Benefit can help. I'll leave it up to our keynote speaker and panelists to talk more about the program and how it can help college students. But I do want to make one thing clear as I end these opening remarks. The digital divide is real for college students. Whether students are taking all of their classes in person, are enrolled in an online program, or are engaged in a mix of the two, stable high-speed internet is absolutely essential for them to do the daily work to ultimately earn their degree and change their life. And it's even more important to make quality broadband accessible to close racial inequities that exist in the digital divide and in our higher education system. Today's college students, the commuters, the parents, returning adults, low-income students and students of color need to hear about the Emergency Broadband Benefit program so that they can access affordable quality internet to pursue their college dreams. With that, I will pass it over to our keynote speaker, Jessica Rosenwurzel, acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission. Thank you. And hello everyone. It is great to be with the Open Technology Institute and New America's Higher Education Program. As Alejandro was just mentioning last week, the team at New America released this really big survey about what the pandemic has meant for education and specifically learning at home. And if you haven't seen it, I recommend you take a look because if you dig into the research, you'll see the kind of numbers that explain precisely why we're gathered right here right now. And what the team found about who is connected and who is under connected during the pandemic is striking. They determined that cost is really one of the biggest reasons why families lack internet service where they live. In fact, the data show that 18% of families who have home broadband say their service has been cut off at least once in the past 12 months because they had problems paying for it. And among those families that might rely on a mobile subscription to get online with a smart phone, one in six had their service cut off at some point during the past year. What that tells us is that a significant number of Americans who need to be online are making month to month decisions about whether or not they can afford to pay for internet access. And faced with the burden of having to decide whether to pay for essentials, like housing, transportation or medicine. They can let their internet service lapse. So we can all agree that with all the things we have to worry about during this pandemic, nobody should have to choose between putting food on the table or paying their broadband bill. But the data show very clearly it's happening. But change is happening too, because help has arrived for millions of American families. And that's because at the close of last year, Congress approved a COVID relief package that included $3.2 billion to establish the emergency broadband benefit. This is a big deal. It's our nation's largest ever program to help Americans afford internet service. And that includes college students and Pell Grant recipients too. So with this program in place, eligible households can now receive discounts of up to $50 a month for broadband service or up to $75 a month if they reside on tribal lands. And participants can also receive a one time $100 discount off of a computer or tablet. So Congress gave us only 60 days to write rules for this program. And so the FCC staff burn the midnight oil staying up late nights and weekends to stand this program up and record time. We decided we would put consumers first, and we established guiding principles for the emergency broadband benefit. We determined that it needed to be expansive, inclusive and transparent. And because this program is funded with appropriated funds, we sought to use the resources we have fairly smartly and efficiently. And we hit all the deadlines and on May 12, the Commission opened the emergency broadband benefit to the public. And since that time, households across the country that are eligible, including those who struggled with job loss during the last year, who have a child in the free and reduced school lunch program, or who received a Pell Grants have benefited from the broadband supported by this program. We've also learned a lot during the six weeks that the program's been up and running. And even though it's only been open for a short time, I want to talk today about the lessons learned that we can apply to our ongoing efforts and any future initiatives to help Americans afford broadband. The first and top line takeaway from the past few weeks is that there is consumer demand and consumer need for a broadband affordability program. In the first week after launching the emergency broadband benefit, more than one million households signed up for months, you know, we pointed to surveys to show that too many Americans will worried about how to pay their broadband bill. But more than one million enrollees in one week proves beyond any doubt that too many households are struggling to afford to get online. As of this week, that number exceeds three million, and it continues to grow. While the emergency broadband benefit was established to help families get through the pandemic with these enrollment numbers at this stage in the crisis. I think it's clear that the need for the emergency broadband benefit or something similar will outlast COVID-19. Now the second key lesson I would draw from the program rollout so far is that trusted voices are the lifeblood of successful outreach and enrollment campaigns. I'm working with organizations and officials at the national state and local level. I personally participated in outreach events with multiple members of Congress tribal leaders, and a diverse group of local and national advocates. We've done national press appearances and local news stories. We've joined HPC use to discuss the importance of this program. We have 30 Spanish language presentations, briefings and interviews. And we even got the NFL on board with a player on the Arizona Cardinals joining me for an editorial and the Miami Dolphins Foundation developing a video to promote this program. And stay tuned because there's more to come. We've done over 200 virtual public presentations on this program since April, and those have ranged from small local events for community groups and libraries to larger train the trainer style events with national nonprofit organizations. And we partnered across government to we worked with the Department of Labor to provide information to state unemployment offices and workforce associations across the country. We partnered with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Education sent emails to every single health grant recipient to tell them about this opportunity. And as you know, that's more than 6 million students nationwide. This February, we have enlisted over 24,000 partners, ranging from local boys and girls clubs, school districts, libraries, YMCA's food banks, meals on wheels and grassroots organizers to national nonprofits and key individuals who focus on digital inclusion to help us spread the word. And we've empowered those partners with a customizable toolkit that includes a wide variety of materials to use when spreading the word about this important program. And those materials are available in English and Spanish, along with 13 other languages.  And by leveraging the power of trusted voices and earn media opportunities, we've raised enough awareness about this program to enroll millions of Americans. And looking at the data we've noticed a real increase in traffic to our website and enrollments when there are news broadcasts and local reports about the program. But of course, we're not done yet. And the third lesson to take away from the past few months is the importance of being nimble. The emergency broadband benefits, not like a wind up doll that we can just merely send on its way. It needs monitoring and it needs regular care. Before the start of this program, the FCC hosted a series of roundtable events to hear from our partners. My staff has continued to hold these conversations after the program got underway. And today I'm announcing we're going to start a new round of listening sessions with stakeholders to learn best practices. I want to know what's work. What did, and what ideas our partners have for next steps on outreach. You've got a good idea. Bring it. Our virtual door is open. Now part of being nimble also involves looking at the data and seeing what we can learn. And in the spirit of greater transparency around the program. I'm pleased to announce that today we're going to make more granular enrollment data public down to the local level. And for the information viewers out there that means figures at the three digits of code level. This is a lot more granular than the statewide data we've used to date. And we're hoping it can be used to help improve our understanding of where the program is reaching consumers. I hope everyone can take a look at this new data slice and dice the different ways to identify what changes the program would benefit from under existing law, and in any subsequent legislative effort that follows. Now the last lesson I'd like to close with is this, even though the emergency broadband benefit is a national program. It is important to remember that this program is successful household by household. It's not state by state or county by county. And that is why it is so important to develop local pathways to reach those who need this program the most. So let me talk about one of those households we were able to reach. Amanda Shermhorn is a mom.  She lives in rural Minnesota, where thanks to a Pell Grant. She is getting a degree. But it hasn't been easy. She has struggled without a reliable internet connection and her kids have struggled to, especially her son with autism. But with her classwork, Amanda would sometimes sit in her car in the parking lot of Minnesota State Community and Technical College, just to use the free Wi-Fi signal. Other times she would rise at 4am, just to get her online homework done before her children would wake for the day and exhaust their limited home connection with their virtual school. However, was determined not to let her lack of reliable and consistent internet access stop her from getting her education. And whoa, that grit really matters. Because as New America has found, nearly one in five community college students reported stopping their education during this pandemic, because they lacked sufficient internet access. So Amanda has both incredible drive and very long days. But now with the broadband benefit we have, we can make it a bit easier for her and for her children. And that's just one household. One household we can help with broadband. One household that can now keep up with school and so much more in modern life that has moved online. One household we can prevent from being consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide. Imagine doing that again and again and again. Household after household after household. That's what the emergency broadband benefit looks like. And while we think nationally about this program, its benefits may be best counted one by one, household by household, because the stories they tell are powerful. This program is powerful demand for it is out there, local efforts to get the word out about its benefits are key. And that's especially true for Pell Grant recipients. Being nimble and data driven is essential because we really have to meet consumers where they are. And it's also important to recognize that our success comes down to reaching individual households, so that everyone, no matter who they are, or where they live has a fair shot at opportunity in the digital age. Thank you. My name is Emily Balclust and I'm the deputy executive director at higher learning advocates, a nonprofit advocacy organization working toward bipartisan federal policies to better serve today's students. Thank you to new America's higher ed program and OTI for having me and our panelists here today. I'm now happy to introduce you to our awesome panelists. Savannah Stiger is a senior at the University of Maine at Machias studying psychology and community studies. Savannah is also a parent to a six year old girl, and a three year old boy, and as an aspen ascend student parent advisor. Nancy Russell is the president of dinner college, a public tribal land grant college in Saley Arizona that serves the Navajo nation. Carmen lids is the vice chancellor and chief information officer for the Los Angeles Community College District. And Edward Bartholomew is the associate bureau chief of consumer and governmental affairs at the federal communications commission. If you have any questions for the panelists throughout our discussion, please use the question and answer function at the bottom of your zoom screen, or type your questions in the chat box. We'll do our best answer as many questions as possible today. I want to start with Savannah. So Savannah you've had firsthand experience with connectivity challenges in order to complete your college coursework. Can you tell us a little bit about the struggles that you overcame in order to keep learning and did any of your classmates experience similar challenges with broadband access. I live in rural Maine, and where I was living before where I live now I lived off the grid and I had no internet and no power and all of that. And so to get my school work done, I was driving to the campus and using the internet there with the kids in the car or I would try to go to the library and nap time and go to the libraries and the parking lot there and do my school work. And at one point they did give us hotspots and those worked. Oh my goodness. Oh, I'm sorry. So those worked pretty well. But for some people they didn't because they're very hit or miss one of my classmates who lived on the grid in town. She lived like in a dead zone and so she would have to put her hotspot in the window at the right angle, just so she could get service but it really only worked at certain times of day and she actually worked nights and so she slept during the day so finding that window to do her homework was very difficult. And I had another friend who was a classmate who they just had unlimited data on their phones to use to get to have internet at their home and that even the unlimited data at the end of the month that slows down. So I know a lot of people who have struggled with internet access. And what does that mean when thinking about trying to complete your assignments to tune into video lectures and ultimately work toward completing your college degree or credential. I feel like it means that you definitely hate online classes. I mean at least I do and everyone I talk to we're all just like online, but it's hard because you have to plan things and even for classes that are in person, or have I had one this past semester that was online, but we had to show up in the virtual lecture. And that didn't feel fair that was really difficult to do and so it makes everything much harder you have to plan that much more and I have several classmates who in addition to being parents and students work full time.  That is a terrible time but okay. Yeah, thanks for an I appreciate you sharing that with us and Monty, we're hoping that you can tell us a little bit about the challenges that your students based during the pandemic and access and the internet, and how the emergency broadband benefit could help to improve their educational outcomes. Thank you well, of course, and thank you for this opportunity. And I think I'd like to start off by saying that we think the word access is a very if you look at the dictionary it has a very specific answer very specific definition, but it is not, it is a very vague word. So, for example when we converted from when the pandemic just hit, and we started trying to survey our students what were their capacity with broadband Wi Fi phones that different things like that. We asked the question do you have access to the internet access to Wi Fi. And one of the surveys came back and the person said yes and then we asked them to explain a little more. Right that explanation helps kind of drive where we're going to provide some resources. And the response I got was, I drive 15 miles on top of a Mesa, and then I climb a little higher on a hill, and I can get access through my phone. And nobody on this call and nobody listening would define that as access, but for our students, it was access, and they were happy to get that. And so I think that's something that you know some of the challenges that we faced of earlier Savannah talked about the parking lots, and you know colleges universities all over this country created these parking lot spots. It's wonderful we had to do what we had to do, but it also is embarrassing. It's embarrassing that this is what college and none of us, except for Savannah would have would imagine that type of education when they went to college. And for us here because we're very remote we're in the northeast part of the state of Arizona. In the middle of the Navajo nation, we would have families, not the student but families come to our parking lot in a pickup truck, pull out blankets, spread them out over the ground. And their kids would be accessing the internet for the K 12 their their mom or dad might be doing something with college. And you had a whole family sitting in a parking lot, just to attend kindergarten just to attend fifth grade just to attend college. And again, access so I think one of the things that's important. When we look at this is how do we try to transition, you know and I think that's something that we're really talking about, because this support for tribal lands for our students my students $75 would go a long ways. Because what did I just explain, it'll go a long way so they can pay for their access and that money that they save now goes to gasoline for access. So they're still at the same level they were right, but it helps them, it helps them continue. And I think that's what we're really trying to focus with our tribal students because a lot of them come we come from the hardest hit area. You know, the Navajo Nation was probably the hardest hit area during COVID. And then within the Navajo Nation, our college sits in an agency in the middle of the Navajo Nation, and which was hardest hit within the Navajo Nation so our students overcame a lot. And a lot of these stories of resilience and determination and courage come down not just in terms of surviving but what they had to do in order to continue their college education so this, this support allows them to move forward. You know, but I do have a concern, how long, because the one thing that we have to think about is that this is not a problem that ends tomorrow, or this is a problem that will go on forever. So how do we make sure that this is just one step in a long traveling towards where we want to be. And I think one of the things, you know that that we're looking at and what's interesting for us is how do we get the word out to students who don't have access about here's an opportunity to get access. And it's one of those conundrums, because most of our students, a lot of our students, you know, some of the data that was shared earlier, talked about how, you know, the students lost connectivity during the month and whatnot. Well, here, a lot of our students have the phones that are subsidized. So they go through two or three phone numbers in a semester sometimes, you know just to continue that and so how do we communicate this to them. That's a challenge. It's a good challenge in the sense of there's something there to help. And I think that's something that kind of motivates all of us. I also think it's important that you know the, the access, it's also changing the way we deliver education. So, you know, one of the things that we, we know that even with access to broadband, it's limited. The more people on it, it congested everything so it's changing the way we teach to try to ensure that we're not running up the data bills were changing we're trying to work with students in a different manner. And finally, I taught a photography class during this and you know you can imagine how much bandwidth that took in terms of people sending and all that so we started just texting and you know you try to find workarounds like that. But having this ability, you know we had students, all sorts of stories over and over. And I think this is something that allows us an opportunity to say okay. We're going to get that if a student can get that then we can focus on the other two. There are three major hindrances for our students. One is transportation, childcare, and access to broadband. So we can get one that's kind of, okay, we can focus on the other two. And I think that's what we're doing now with this program, we can actually try to provide more gas stipends for transportation for students. And we can also prepare for students when they come into the, if they have to come to a parking lot and provide that so it also helps the institution in being able to try to address some of the other needs that are there. So it really has a, a, a, a bonus impact on a lot of different areas. I appreciate you sharing those details and certainly your work on behalf of your students and helping them address those challenges during the pandemic and, and now and beyond. Thank you. Edward, turn a little bit to you and I think it's a perfect segue. And can you tell us a little bit about enrollment and the ebb program so far, I know we heard the chairwoman speak about that a little bit. Is there any information on how many Pell Grant recipients are signing up and what can colleges and universities do to help their students navigate this program are their best practices you recommend or is there any way that they can reach out to you for help with the application process. Sure. So I'll break that apart in chunks so the, the 3 million 3 million is the top line number so that's what the new data today tells us that over 3 million households are now enrolled. We're not to the point yet where we broken out the data by the different eligibility categories. Some of that's difficult to do and maintain privacy just because of where we're at with the numbers but those are things that we're looking to make more data available as the program continues to move forward so the new data set today. Does show data that's broken down to the zip three level, which is something that a lot of partners and a lot of people who have been helping us to spread the word have been asking for. And now I dropped the link to that in the chat while the chairwoman acting chairwoman was giving her remarks so you can find that there and I encourage everybody to go look at that data set. In terms of Pell Grant recipients and sort of reaching people and what are best practices. And then the chairwoman acting chairwoman did mention this is a household to household effort and it is enough, you know, we need to meet people where they are aware and agency that prior to the pandemic was on the road a lot and we did do a lot of in person events and a lot of places, and that can go screeching halt. So we knew with standing up a program like this where you have $3.2 billion worth of funding to get out to create awareness around and to make sure that people can who need it can take advantage of it. We knew that was going to need, we would need the help of trusted voices partners community organizers and specific to Pell Grant recipients. And then the university financial aid offices jumping in and helping to spread the word folks on campus making sure that their campus communities know about this. There's been a lot of talk and I think Savannah and Monty have touched on just the diversity and backgrounds and students today. And that you know different people are coming from different places and access means different things for different folks. I did know there was one group that we could reach out to who had a list of all the Pell Grant recipients in the country and that was our friends at the Department of Education. So, early on we reached out to them and they were able to send an email to every Pell Grant recipient and that went to every 2020 to 2021 school year recipient, and every 2021 to 2022 school year Pell Grant award recipient. And I want to make sure people can find this email if they're one of those people so it came from an email address that is no reply at student aid dot gov. The subject line was apply for the emergency broadband benefit program, and the header in the email was you are eligible for the emergency broadband benefit program. So do the search look in your email boxes find that email. The other great thing about that email is for Pell Grant recipients that serves as your proof. So when you complete the online application that you can find it get emergency broadband.org. Yes, there's some questions about who you are background address all those things. There's a box you check that says I'm a program award recipient. You'll have the ability to upload a copy of that email directly into that application and that's how you get approved so find the email. Go sign up if you haven't already. And I refer people to our toolkit we've put together a lot of great materials that folks can grab and easily make use of, and, and, you know, just get the word out there about this so with that I'll wrap up I hope I got all the things that you teed up for me. Yeah, great, absolutely thanks I've already appreciate that. And maybe we can share in the chat again that email address the subject line etc for folks who are on the lookout for that email. Carmen let's hear from you, maybe a little bit about how the Los Angeles Community College District has been working to remove barriers for broadband access. I believe there was a survey to students to identify these barriers and what are you and others at your institution and others in the state of California doing to help students enroll in the ebb program. Thank you Emily. Before we go into talking about the things that we have done I want to share a little bit of our about our students so Los Angeles Community College District is amongst the largest in the nation, with about 230,000 full and part time students across our nine colleges. We have about half of our students report their income near or below the poverty line. Each year, LACCD distributes around $250 million in financial aid awards, not including student loans. The financial aid is critical to opening doors and higher education to those could not afford college otherwise. Those are the very pale recipients that Edward was mentioning. We also are a leading educator in California for Latinx and African American students including DACA students. Our nine colleges combined educates twice as many African American and Latinx students than the University of California system in its entirety. And one really important point is that about a third of our students are parents 33%, just like Savannah. Every support that we provide to one of our students provides help to their entire family. As Emily mentioned in spring of 2020 early in the pandemic, we conducted a student survey to understand the impact of the pandemic on our students. From the sudden reordering of their daily life to most tragic personal consequences. Some of our students have lost family, friends, dear ones during this pandemic. We have all been challenged, but some of our students have been challenged more than more than more more. We, we had about 11% response rate to to the survey. And here's what we found, which is not probably surprising to anybody on this panel. About 14% of our students had access to internet. That meant 20% of students did not have access to internet. 14% indicated that only sometimes have access to a to internet. And with the qualifications that Monty provided earlier, similar scenarios happen for our students either when they say they have access to internet that could mean a variety of things. 76% of our students had access to a computer with 15% indicating that only sometimes have an access to a device because they share it, just like they share their internet with their family with their siblings with their roommates. For some of our students that have children, children that go to school themselves, it meant sacrificing their own computer time so their children can have the best connectivity or access to the device for them to complete their studies. Additionally, we found significant increase in the stress level and a multitude of personal challenges. Many of our students have lost their job or have reduced hours. They had dealt with food insecurity, loss of housing, and more significant in some ways loss of health care, or childcare for for their, for their children. So the magnitude of this pandemic had serious practical implication. But from a technology perspective from a broadband perspective, it was nothing new. The broadband digital divide was there before the pandemic. It just shone a light on on the on the lack of access across the across the nation. From an LACC perspective, we had to reinvent every aspect of our operations. We have purchased and distributed over 40,000 devices to our students. We also just like other colleges and universities enabled parking lots with Wi Fi and open them to our students when the health guidelines allowed for that to happen. Early in the pandemic the ISPs have provided 30 days 60 days free access for our students that very shortly ended. We had the FCC lifeline program, which hasn't been mentioned but it's been it was an amazing resource for our students. The city of LA digital inclusion program on and the foundation for California Community College College by program that has been so important for our students and getting low, low cost internet on access. And I would be remiss not to mention that we have a fantastic group of faculty that have done whatever it took to continue teaching during the pandemic and utilizing all of the tools that we put out there disposal. We rolled out 365 new online software to accommodate with the variety of programmatic needs. The faculty have embarked and utilize these new tools to to provide access for capability for our students to continue their learning and broadband and connectivity. I see as the virtual railroad and past to access information, and we need to build this high speed networks, just like we have roads, highways, and alongside all of our railroads. We need to increase affordability and accessibility of broadband service to all underserved residential areas and provide free wireless service and parks public spaces across our communities. The emergency broadband program continues that support for our students, but it needs to to be sustainable. And the availability of high speed internet access it is essential not only for for teaching and learning, but for economic competitiveness and a high quality of life in the 21st century. Thank you again for the opportunity. Great. Thank you, Carmen. So looking forward. You know, I would love if the panelists could share their thoughts on what might happen. If and when the EVV program funding runs out. Do any of you have plans for how to continue to address these needs at the student level institution level the district level. Maybe Edward, would you like to take us off here. Happy to and I think it might make sense for me to talk a little bit about how the program will wind down as a starting point so it's $3.2 billion those funds will either become exhausted or six months after the end of the pandemic is declared by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, whichever one of those two happens first is when the program will end. Provider we included some really important consumer protections and the rules of the program to make sure that families don't end up with bill shock when the program doesn't so providers have to notify households. When there is a the last time that they will get the full discount on their bill so if they're getting the full $50 or the full 75 when will that occur. The last time when they may get a partial discount on the bill so there is a scenario where they might have a month that's partially offset and they don't get the full discount. When households need to continue to will need to opt in to continue service with the provider and that's true even if they were with that provider before the emergency broadband benefits started they still need to affirmatively opt in to continue receiving really those are designed so that nobody has the discount run out and suddenly they're accruing an extra 50 or 60 or whatever amount per month or one two months before they realize that they now have a debt that they owe to a broadband service provider. I do want to just point out that lifeline was mentioned and there's a question in the chat that talked about, you know, USF programs. Lifeline was created under the Reagan administration, it was very much primarily focused on telephone support in recent years there is a broadband component to it it's $9 and 25 cents per month or 3425 if you're on tribal land. The program really builds on a lot of their tools and resources that were built for the lifeline program so you'll know that note that life if you qualify for lifeline you're automatically qualified for the EBB. I can't speculate on where a program like this goes next but lifeline is a current program that people can make use of slightly different but it does exist today and will exist after the EBB ends. Thanks for that information. Would anyone perhaps like to speculate what they think should happen if the program runs out or how we're going to continue to support students and broadband access. So I will start. I would, I would approach this in removing barriers to universal sustainable brand that access by looking at it and a four prong approach. And having quality internet service available and so the availability of the broadband across all areas to access to devices ensuring that all families have access to a computer. Three advocacy for policy change ensuring that a program such as the EBB are not time bound but are continuous programs to provide some subsidies for families that most need them. And number four, digital literacy, ensuring that all of the families and all of the students, every person knows what each program provides for them, what programs there are available for them out there. And deciphering what will provide to them. And sometimes deciphering that the various types of available programs can be can be difficult for for some families. So making it very simple and clear. This is what the program provides and this is how it compares to this other program. Yeah, that makes sense or perhaps if there were navigators to help kind of navigate these different programs and issues and and help kind of with that digital literacy. Thanks Kevin for for sharing that and Monty would love to hear if you have any thoughts and, you know, about how Pell Grant students are eligible for the EBB or maybe other students who don't receive a Pell Grant and how are we going to help them, you know, continue to work toward completing their degree. I'm going to circle back to access. I think that we, we need to redefine that in a manner that it's not access to broadband it's not access to the internet, but it's access to education. And if you look at it as access to education it changes the way we look at the problem and then attempt a solution. While EBB is great right now. The reason for it is a band aid. We have that need right now. Well a band aid is not physical therapy a band aid is not going to solve what we need to do going forward. So we need to come come back as Carmen said I think there are things that we can do in the immediate. It's a big policy decision. And you know and I think that's, I think where we come from being on a reservation is that geography should not define if I can go to college from my home. That's just wrong. That's, you know I'll say that's un-American. Right, it should not be like that. So if we change the question, not about access to the internet but access to college. And we also are looking at it in a different way. And so I think one of the things that that we're doing I mean we, we got to focus on what we can do here. So we can talk these big talks and you know all this and that and then you know that we leave this and maybe nothing happened so we have to do something to address what we have right now. And so one of the things we're doing is we're creating micro campuses across the reservation. We built two at another one. So I talked about these long drives of our students. So if you're driving an hour to class or an hour back, and you cut that to 30 minutes. That's a real game changer in terms of your day and what you can do with your family and things like that and one hour is not is not the norm. It's more like two hours. So providing different access points. The other thing we're doing is we're working with K-12 schools. Enrollment has been declining over the last many years and it's going to continue to decline. So there's a lot of empty space at K-12 schools. How can we repurpose that to provide an access point for education, for parents and families. So trying to change that idea is what we're looking at going forward. I think you know the focus that we really have right now is if we can at least right now get some breathing room through this program. We can kind of marshal our resources, our limited resources. And that's one thing travel colleges, you know, we don't have a lot of money, but we're scrappy, we know how to get things done and things like that so if we can remarshall those resources both financial as well as just the personal resources. I think that'll help us get further along. And I think the other thing is really making the argument of the importance of education. Getting a wrap about higher ed doesn't do this doesn't do that. And I think really being able to show that connection. This is where it's needed. This is how it can help your family. This is how you could improve. And that starts with access. And it's about education. It's about, you know, your family climbing the ladder so I think it has to be done on a lot of different levels. You know, we're going to engage where we can fit, but we're also going to have to do things that are specific just to our students and our population and our community. Yeah, I appreciate that. Savannah, can you tell us just from the student angle, especially as a student parent, what do students need to continue to be successful and in thinking, you know that perhaps the ebb program might be is winding down. How do we continue to connect with students and get the word out about other resources they may have and just love to hear your student perspective about what we can do and what students need to be successful. Yeah, I think that money really hit the head on the nail on the head with changing what access means, right because like just because I can access the internet on my phone doesn't mean it's really the class is accessible. And so I think that's important to keep in mind. I would love to see a sliding scale for internet payments come into play, because basically you have to have internet now if you want to function. In the first century, I feel like you pretty much have to have it if you want to go to school, or if you want to work a job that is like an upper level job, you've got to have internet, you can't not have it. And so I think that that needs to change and I would love to see students being given more money, like that always helps things. And just to continue asking students, what do you need what do you need how can we help because they have the most true and best opinion of it, because what I need is different than what my classmates need is different what students at other colleges need like we all have diversity and so by asking everybody, how can we help you and then hearing and then using that information I think is essential. Yeah, great. I think maybe one more quick question before we wrap up this afternoon. And maybe Monty and Carmen could kick us off with helping to answer this but what are some resources that colleges and universities need to help their students apply for the EBB and to navigate the program current we were talking about this a little bit before and Monty about reaching students and how do we get the word out how do we help them enroll and access this this benefit that's been created and what the colleges need to be able to do that. I'll go first and I'll be brief, because based on the earlier conversations we had a Carmen had a lot of ideas here. I want to make sure she's able to get to them. But I think that it comes down to a real simple thing we have to try to find a way to get to the students where they're at, whatever that means. You know, and that's not a cop out answer but it's really trying to say, for us here it's really different I created this social media group with students that's really trying to and, and this is one of the things they're trying to do because they're much more likely to, to hear from and listen to, you know, one of their friends and from me and say look at what I got with this program. So I think that's really important is just trying to find whatever avenue there is for us, you know, and it's a lot of different things to it's not just, you know, we talked about it with the FCC acting chair earlier, talked about all these events. And so, all of those and whatever's left out I mean I hate to say, you know, at that generally but for us it's really trying to get to how we can get to them I think one of the things too is trying to use employers to help, because those employers, their kids maybe going to school, and that's one way to try to address it so looking at the business community to try to have that, you know, where can we insert this information, and I might be helpful there. So, I agree with that wholeheartedly that the more communication is out there the more likely it is that a student will see it somewhere. The other thing that I would say is students tend to look at their peers as trusted source. So, using other students as champions using the student government associations on the colleges as a funnel of that information and communication distribution mechanism. It's, it's critical. Edward mentioned the Department of Education lists of Pell recipients and how each one of them has been sent an email that the challenge with that is that although that that's a mass way of reaching everyone. A subset of those students are going to look at those emails and I'm going to say this is not legitimate this is a this is a scam someone's trying to convince me to, to, I don't know, be taken advantage of and we've been, you know, having the security of this for our students trying to keep them away from bad guys so sometimes it's really difficult to, to make the differentiation between the bad guys and the good guys, particularly when you get an email saying, I'm going to give you money. And we've been specifically making them aware that that those are not typically a good thing so. We've had that challenge not not only with the, with the EBB, but also when we were handing out a student assistance from from the her funds or what not to direct aid to students. Sometimes the challenge so multiple communications coming from different sources that can then reinforce that that's a legitimate offering and get it out through through the means that they communicate through. And here, whatever social media we managed to do, as well as if it is permissible at your institution to text the students with with information then that it's another another mechanism to do it posted on the website student portals. As well as other areas where they might go like library sites and whatnot. The other thing is, there are other location where students are that are in need go, such as food pantries food housing community centers, etc. So I would make sure that this information is also available on the city sites where the local community sites that provide access to other to other resources. So then the students would find this in the same place they would go for other necessities. I truly see internet access being as much a necessity as electricity. And I'm going to end there since we're at the clock mark. Thank you very much. Thank you and thank you so much to all of our panelists. I think this was so helpful and informative and thank you to the audience for joining us today. If you're looking for more information related to the ebb program, you can visit get emergency broadband.org to learn more and check out some of the resources that we listed over in the chat throughout the session. And hope everyone has a great afternoon.


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Mae hwn yn ei dweud ar hynny. go to conferences and you meet these startups and we were given this task of creating a startup in government as it were and I end up saying that I'm a member of a tax collection and public service delivery startup we're in our 400th round of funding sort of finding it difficult to deal with agile as a concept because so much of our life has been structured and I do recall going with my colleague then Mike Bracken's we went to an agency of government and government is great at creating these neologisms where they say you know everything should be agile um and I remember going there and they had a presentation they really wanted to please us and they talked about adulation um because they wanted to do agile but not that fast so it was a sort of agile and evolution together and you know blessed them they got there actually but it was one of those things where culture and and where the culture of change makes a difference and so let's talk a little bit about the challenge that we had to in order to face our our change at that point and the challenge that we faced was this we were spending too much money okay so we were spending about one percent of the British economy on technology within government and that's although you hear about funding it's amazing how much you can do with that and not get it right and so the uh we had the initial set of change controls which we brought in and obviously this was contentious but it meant that we could get change moving by using a form of control and we had a very very strong focus on what we wanted to do we wanted to move away from paying large amounts of money but we wanted to move away from having a system that didn't work okay we were Olympic grade at having services that didn't work for our users and so one of the core things we started to define was we would design services that were based around user need and it's very rare to find a politician to stand up and say we will build services around our users but that was the core running principle of what we were doing we're there to build a digital government and that's a government based around user need and we needed models we needed new models one of the things we were hearing were alliance and um their change was that they needed to move fast you need to bring in the change of moving faster and the thing we found very quickly was that technology was moving much faster than we as a government could move so you've got to change your game it was actually starting to render us irrelevant because if we didn't change to help provide services for our citizens then our citizens would go and use other things it's rather like when you run the IT in an organisation if you don't provide the services that people want to use they use shadow IT you find people using gmail or hotmail to go and do their work it's the same thing if you don't move in that way it won't work for you and also you need to move away this cycle we had was move away and focus on your innovation on things that are new and things that need to move and stop trying to innovate all the time with things which are common you see we had designed ourselves in a particular shape where we kept on reinventing ourselves we kept on reinventing the common components that we needed to make work and also because we worked in the commercial and the government construct where we had interpreted the rules in a particular way we had done this we had actually managed to lock all of that inside a black box procurement structure we tried to procure our way out of trouble and this wasn't going to work and we came to realise that culturally we were facing what we called the square of despair okay so all of these things were reasons why you shouldn't do things i've often talked about there being a department of no okay we're working department of work pensions department of health department of tax there's a department of no and part of it was the was these things these four things every time you wanted to change something people said oh but the legacy every time that you wanted to change something you couldn't find the right people because we had spent 25 years outsourcing great people out of the civil service so we had to get people back in we recruited almost immediately 200 of the great new people into the civil service at leadership positions we always found that security was cited as a problem so people go oh i can't do that because of security cloud computing and the ability to put your data into a safe cloud space is something that civil servants found culturally very difficult at the time but over four years we've moved i used gmail for my email for the cabinet office email for my department email now that was something which people couldn't understand how could you possibly do that but strangely you find that organisations that run cloud services are actually quite good at security and so long as you make sure you check with them and you make sure you're up to date it's just as safe in fact many people would say it's just it's more secure and also procurement we'd invented the whole series of rules which meant that it costs too much money to sell to the government and therefore if you were a small business or an innovative business why would you bet all of your funding to spend it on filling in procurement forms we were cutting ourselves out from the market and so technology is moving faster than we were we had to be free to keep up we had to change our shape so we did this the whole of government is built like this it's actually constitutionally built like this you have departments everyone is responsible in those departments and yet we had to move to a concept of platforms because there are common things that we were all doing now we've been doing it for years with electricity you know we don't go and have a departmental generator to build our electricity in but we had to do this with tech as well we had to move to a platform-based approach and conceptually that's very difficult because the thing that means is that the member of one department is going to rely on the member of another department to help them and culturally that's massively difficult you'll find that within companies you'll find that within all organisations but it's one of the competing things it's one of the great changes that has happened is we're able now to help people trust a cross-government so we brought in a set of changes there's the mechanics of that so we agreed to code of practice we agreed design principles because the design of our services was right at the core of making them successful if we designed them for officials to use they wouldn't work famously infamously a particular programme I remember starting looking at the first cut of this huge waterfall project development which said developed a piece of software I had a look at the first release of it and it said question five are you pregnant question nine are you a woman we we had sort of failed to do things I was famously involved in there in a programme for farming subsidies and when I got there on the first day it said are you a young farmer question 10 question 38 what is your date of birth these two things could have been done better we kept on asking questions we didn't need to ask the most famous one for me always being do you have a valid driving licence and the efficient way of answering that is yes or no it isn't give me the licence number and where it was issued because you just need to know is it yes or no we can do much better we also committed to openness so one of the famous things we did was the open document format that we made sure that within the UK and within government we always recognise we will be able to share documents using open standards we cut out a lot of friction that was the organisation chart I inherited I'll leave that for you to think for a moment that was the organisation chart I inherited can you imagine having to try and get a contentious policy through that and that's what we did we cut it out we decided we'd say look we were focused on four main areas shared services ERP digital services mission IT those are the things that only those departments can do and then huge boatload of common technology services all the things that we do common across government build that once and we expanded the marketplace for our suppliers so on the left that was our supply base of direct line of supply 85% of that huge number of spending was done by 12 companies we had to expand so we grew our marketplace we opened up our market we made it easier to sell into government we made it easy so that small businesses could deliver innovative solutions to government and we made sure that we scaled that and now the digital marketplace is about a billion pounds a year 52% of that is small medium enterprises so the whole point of that was so we could get an innovative supply chain and we are now a center of digital excellence in government the OECD have recognised that we were the first place within the OECD in that so we changed how we treated our technology remember this transition curve we decided to go for that okay we can move and do common things together and the way that we did that change was we made things open this was one of the slogans we used right at the very beginning make them open they make it better open was our main tool of disruption and it's fundamental to everything that we've done everything boils back to four components you see if you're going to use the internet it's a common resource so if you're going to use a common resource you need to have standards so we made sure we had open standards and we're very very strong on the fact that our open standards go through a huge peer review process with the community to make sure that they are truly open for us that then meant that we could use open source effectively and believe me introducing open source into government has been an interesting lie in the interesting period because the opposition to it was absolutely fundamental to people who work in a risk-based environment where they see risk as a binary thing and the ability to cooperate was wasn't there but we introduced open because it made things better we looked a lot sorry i'll just go about open markets meant that we could open up to everybody so that we could have diverse markets so we could get the right innovation so that we could buy from the people that had the best ideas not the people that were best at filling in forms it's as basic as that and then also open data you will know that we were the first transparent government we were the we are the most transparent government in the world in terms of how much data we publish around what we do and we were very very key very very keen to make sure that we were open about our spending and how we got to where we got to but now we are very open in how we will interpret our policy and you'll see that our new prime minister is now looking at using setting our policy and then using open data to make sure that those policies are implemented particularly around things like the disparities in how you're treated by our system if according to race that's one of the core components of our approach so it's at the half of the approach the government is taking it's also at the half of the approach that other governments are taking so there are four governments here i don't know if you can spot which ones they are top left is probably quite easy so that was the beta for gov.il on the top right that's New Zealand the bottom left if any of you from Estonia will know this glorious x-road from Estonia which is an open source approach to government and in the bottom right President Parkman Hay of Korea we five governments actually work together very closely you may notice that the top two components there look relatively similar they look quite similar to gov.uk there's a reason why they do that it's because they're based on gov.uk they've used the same code because governments don't need to complete like other world leaders we want to start and we want to create the same thing we want to be able to build a government that's based on the internet because it's the most effective it's the fastest way it's the best way of building the services we need to build but it's also the way that meets our users needs most effectively they don't want to know that they're dealing with the Department of Finance or the Department of Chairs or the Department of Agriculture to get their parking permit which in some circumstances it could be some of those used they just want to know that the government is there to work for them and so that approach of thinking how do we build a government of the internet is right at the core of what we're doing so we use open to unlock change and the dynamic force behind that has been competition when we decided we wanted to build things for for government quickly simply effectively we made sure that we could use all the right suppliers that were available not just the ones that had previously been good at winning contracts we made sure that we use standards which meant that people could work together so that not everything had to be delivered by one organisation but people could work in teams now what that meant was that our openness and our ability to start delivering drove competition and actually what that drives if you have true competition in the market as Sam was saying it drives the adoption of open source it also drives a high percentage of small business engagement which means that you get much more innovation which means that you're open to ideas which means that you're not the smartest person in the room because the smartest people in the room are the people that come in to work with you to collaborate with you and of course it also means that we can start to change our shape it means that we can start to move to the concept of sharing because if we have standards and we can share it then means that we can move from silos where government is set to build itself into the use of platforms where we can share components and share what we have built together let's have a think about that what we have built together because governments generally don't compete now i've put up here two organisations okay on the left hand side the dvla on the right hand side the swede of the norwegian dvla now it may come as no surprise to you but i have and we have no desire to provide services to the norwegian drivers association we have no desire to issue driving licenses in norway famously i've rather infamously i said that um we have we no longer have a wish to collect tax in america um sort of moved on um took a long time but if you think about it um we're doing the same thing i driving licenses you go through the same set of rules one of the things we discovered as we opened up government and looked at the size of government was that we were doing the same thing so many times within our own government we were issuing licenses and in compute terms issuing a shotgun license and issuing a fishing license aren't actually that different you give your name you give your data you go through a set of business rules you pay some money good thing you're done and so why are we trying to continually reinvent the wheel in a particularly british way actually we should be able to share what we do and share the components of what we do because as governments we don't compete not for that and so we're now starting to work very closely with governments to do this and the governments that i showed you previously have also done that that if you're um working in the tax system in vietnam you're probably using some form of korean code to help you get that moving if you're working in the health service in finland you're going to start finding that the enterprise service bus across your services is the x-road in fact the finished government has made the x-road more secure has helped to develop it into a much better service and so we're actually looking much more at cooperation and collaboration we have open sourced all of our code we have open sourced our tooling we have open sourced our methodology so that you will find that other governments are able to start doing the things where we had the early battles and you'll see that in local government in the uk they're adopting standards to help them introduce better services for citizens if you look at the australian government and the digital transformation office they started to take place use a service standard which looked very similar to the british service standard and that's great because it means that we together can actually work more effectively the biggest problem we have is that we can't find enough great people to come and work in government and so that's the motto we have we shouldn't try to do everything ourselves we can't that's where we ended up going wrong for many many years cooperation and collaboration is the way forward for us because we can make sure that what we work on is the work for the people but it also means that we can get the best services it's a completely different model we're not looking at spending 16.5 billion pounds a year on proprietary technology to work in one particular part of the government we are looking to create services that work for everybody across the whole of our government so that we don't have to continually reinvent the wheel it's very basic it's very simple but that concept and the culture of delivering that is very difficult to win the argument for but we're getting there and i suppose the thing that is now galvanising us is how do we use what we've got to remove the friction from government all the successful tech businesses all the successful new digital businesses are about taking away the broker removing the friction helping people do things quicker smoother simpler for them that's the aim we have in government as well it will reduce our cost but it will massively increase our uptake and mean that we deliver the services that our citizens need and that's how we grow fast and as i leave you with one thought we started with this huge monolith delivering in silos we now find ourselves with a growth market called GovTech the like fintech which the UK sells out we now have and we built 500 business cases for companies to get involved with government to sell to government to deliver services that we wanted but built in the right way where we collaborate where we share where we can work effectively across platforms and work effectively across departments to deliver the services our citizens need and the big thing about that is that's a sustainable model and if you're starting to work and starting to look at a rules based and starting to look at the service which allows you to work in a rules based environment where people will want to work together then government might well be for you you may have thought for many years not to do it but you may now find that government is actually a profitable market for you to invest time and effort to come and collaborate with thank you


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Sorry media job content creation repetitive stuff If you're not in a position to create dynamic storytelling Copy and paste doing the same little advertising content creation Thumbtail thumbnail creation just the same you gonna be replaced trust me. You will be replaced legal job again That are repetitive paperwork getting lawsuit. Hey gathering papers sign this sign it Just again, it's gonna be one of those jobs. That's going to be replaced so Before we get into the theme, I'm not gonna be able to cover all the details in this video I have a link in the description box for the free seven step guys and give you guys more insight How to get started so go ahead and check that out links below to that free guy And if you already signed up for the free guy, go check out some of my premium courses guys I got a developer Lunchpack course that's gonna help you take your skills to the next level in 30 days and really get you that job So go ahead and check out the links below guys and get started on that. So Market research. Oh, yeah, that's definitely any kind of research job is Pretty much is done for guys because computers can do more research faster And more efficient than anything we can do guys Teachers this one this is where I want to have a discussion about because this is where you got to take with a grain of salt I think chat GPT can be an assistant to a teacher because there's a human element. There's a connection There's a exception for each student each student is different and this is to keep Exception handling is where chat GPT where us humans is more efficient and more better than a computer at So teachers. Yeah, it can help it can probably two or three ten X a teachers performance But to actually a hundred percent replace. This is where you kind of get that grain of salt Yeah, as we go down the list gonna start making sense financial jobs. Yes, the non human element the Stuff the war repetitive portion of the job Yes, it's gonna take that over but the human element trying to take a risk on somebody who may have Bad credit, but they got a high income and they just went through a divorce Maybe a computer can know that it over time But the very beginnings of it may be not so it's got to collect more data to find that information out So I would say yes and Portions of it. No. Oh traders. Hell yeah All computer based you see all these computers the more computers the more data you see the more information Have to work with the better chance is gonna be replaced. These guys don't have a chance Graphic designers, I think is more the creative design taste factor trends or I would say styles change So you got an option there for that as well accountants This is where it's a little different because it's a lot of numbers and a lot of computers but You're assuming that everything's gonna go good with company There are some role companies out there who do a lot of I would say sketchy accounting Where a chat GPT is not gonna be able to identify sketchy activity or be able to alert you to look at it But there's a lot of ways you can be creative accounting there. So this one. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna replace account I don't think it's gonna replace account customer service agent definitely Any repetitive stuff maybe the human element side of it But if they get it enough they got enough data they implemented successfully This is gonna be heavily involved in knowing your customer.  Yeah, you can do it, but not you're gonna fall on your face And I think that's the rest of it guys That's the rest of the list Don't want to go too far into this but you guys see the trends Repetitive jobs gonna get replaced. I will say you guys have hope Don't let this discourage you you're gonna win regardless. No matter how well that technology is We are superior exception handlers. We are superior to developing new Unknown ways of doing stuff. This is where you're gonna come in that providing solutions that are not there That's gonna help you guys take yourself to the next level and in most situations like I said the The chat GPT can help out but it can't replace so as long as you're there and you can use chat GPT to 10x your performance That's the way to go guys and you're gonna see that regardless of what you do here Any of these is gonna help you guys out So at the end of the day, let's put yourself in a position to win guys If you haven't already check out the links below guys. I got my free seven-step guide I have some nice goodies for some premium courses below So check that out. I'll put a link here to the seven-step guide for free So go ahead and click that and I'll see you guys in the next video pace


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This is Brett with Summit Auto in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. I'm at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show here in Chicago, Illinois, and at the moment I'm checking out this 2019 or 2020. We all knew GMC with all the cool new stuff on it, including the multi-pro tailgate, which we'll get to actually since I got a second here, nobody's back here, I'll demonstrate it right now. Hopefully it's unlocked. It is.  If you want a load stop, you got a load stop right there, so that means that nothing's going to slide back and fall out of your truck if you need the tailgate open for something a little bit longer. This tailgate not only does that, it will also drop down for you, that piece right there. Now when that's down like that, what happens is you can easily get to the back of your truck, like I can walk in pretty far to the back of the truck to get to whatever load that you need to get to. There's a 120 volt 400 watt plug in there, you also have the LED bed lighting. This is your hand grip right there, now this piece comes down as your step to get into the truck, it's a really solid step right there. The other thing that this truck does, you got everything closed and you just open this top piece. If you have plywood back here and it's all stacked up, you can put this stop up as well and that way your plywood's not going to fall out of your truck. So definitely a bunch of different uses for that tailgate. You can see the buttons, this bottom one is for the full tailgate and this top one is for that little piece. Backup sensors, four pin, seven pin wiring, receiver hitch, this one has the dual rear exhaust and this is the AT4 package, kind of the new all-terrain package, this particular one has a 6.2 liter V8, painted polished aluminum rims, Goodyear Wrangler Dura-Trak tires, this is the LT275 65R18s, has some nice painted step bars here and as we hop inside. This is a 2019 by the way, this is considered the AT4 package, so some really cool interior in here, you get the gray and tan leather seats with the orange stitching, all weather floor mats throughout in here, has the auto headlamps, push button, four wheel drive, has the heads-ups display which I noticed that they've been putting in the trucks here now, Bose sound, has the power fold in mirrors, so they power fold in like so, memory driver seat and as we hop inside here, you can see it has the instrument cluster right here, has the forward collision warning heated seats and I don't know if I can turn the radio on, the radio is shut off, but we got lane departure, the factory brake controller, you have a USB and a USB-C, you can put the power tailgate or the tailgate down from inside the truck, heated cooled seats, start-stop technology, downhill assist control, dual climate control, backup camera of course, this one does have the power sunroof in it, the home link buttons, on-star and SOS buttons, just to kind of complete the interior shot here, the AT4 stitch headrest right there, this is a leather-wrapped steering wheel, it is heated, got bluetooth on the right, cruise controls on the left, lots of room in these back seats, these back seats are heated and you do get a USB-C and a regular USB back here, of course the latch child safety system, the power sliding rear window, when you put that down the back is almost completely flat, what I thought neat on the new GMC's here is they got extended headroom for passengers in the back seat, so if you got a crew of big guys with you, they can extra room for their head, also the capitalist fuel fill in these trucks, this is going to have the off-road package, the rancho shocks and the skid plates and everything that you normally get with the all-terrain package, just they call it AT4 now and just a really good looking truck and I personally like thank you for checking out all the videos that we got uploading today and this one in particular as we come up to the front here, you can see the LED running lights, the LED headlamps and the LED fog lamps, the front sonar, I believe it's got the adaptive cruise, that's what the camera is here for and just a really good looking truck all the way around and remember to go to our youtube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto, remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, hopefully you learn a little bit about the tailgate and a little bit about the new AT4 package on this truck and remember to like, subscribe and share, we look forward to you checking out more videos on our channel, we're doing over 30 videos from the 2019 Chicago Auto Show, so check them out, like, subscribe and share, thanks again.


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Okay, we're back. This is Dave Vellante. I'm here in Nimalboro, Massachusetts. My colleagues, David Floyer and John Furrier, are on the West Coast in our new Palo Alto studio. This is the Cube. This is the special Flash Cube, where we're bringing you the information that we have, the latest trends in the market. John and David, we are here talking about some of the trends that we see. We're just about to queue up Steve Mills. But before we do that, Steve Mills announced last week, two weeks ago actually, IBM on 411, was investing a billion dollars in Flash. They've done this before with open source, and they did it again with analytics. I had mentioned earlier that IBM's head of storage used to run the analytics business. They said they were going to invest a billion. They ended up investing 10 billion. Flash is that kind of opportunity. What's your guys take on all this? Let's start with John. Sorry, Dave. I say, what's your take on all this investment? IBM's announcing a billion dollar investment in Flash.  I was flying back east. You stayed in New York for that event, and great interview, by the way. That guy's really sharp, and clearly he's the leader of the ship, and he's setting down the strategic objective. I think they're just putting their money where their mouth is, and I think the marketplace notices heavily. What you look at that acquisition is, I think IBM is putting a stake in the ground and basically saying, we're here, we're here to stay, and we're serious. That is just, I think, something to say, lipstick on a pig. I will say it's more of acknowledgement and being transparent in the fact that storage hasn't been their shining star in the past few years. It has a lot of legacy of innovation within IBM, certainly in the research side, and I think what they're doing is getting back to their roots, and I think that kind of message is very clear to the marketplace that this is now going to be the center, the epicenter of innovation. I think I like Steve Mills backing it up with his wallet, a billion dollars is significant. I think it's just mojo, it's just a sentiment of what they're saying, and I think a billion dollars in context to IBM is not a lot, but I think it does move the market, and I think you're going to see a lot of internal organizational changes within IBM to really snap in line around storage, and as other groups come in and be more integrated. We've seen some success at HP with this in the Converged Networking Group and storage, et cetera, so I think it's a rallying cry internally and externally sends a clear message. All right, great, let's go to the Steve Mills video, let's hear from the man himself, how he's going to spend that billion dollars, watch this video.