FCC wants help promoting diversity in the communications industry
April 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Federal Communications Commission is forming a committee to help improve diversity and cut out inequalities online and elsewhere in the communications industry.
The group will be called the “Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment,” and for now its goals are a bit vague. In announcing its formation, FCC chairman Ajit Pai said the committee would “be charged with providing recommendations to the FCC on empowering all Americans” (emphasis his).
Pai gives two examples of what that could mean in practice: he says the committee could help the FCC set up a communications incubator, or it could help identify ways to stop digital redlining.
Digital redlining —…
