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DA 19-529
Released: June 6, 2019


FCC ANNOUNCES JUNE 24, 2019 MEETING OF THE 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY AND DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT 

GN Docket No. 17-208


This Public Notice serves as notice that, consistent with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2.
   the Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment (ACDDE) will meet on Monday, June 24, 2019, beginning at 10:00 am in the Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters, located at 445 12th Street, SW, Room TW-C305, Washington, DC 20554.  

The agenda at this meeting will feature a report from each of the ACDDE Working Groups.  Each of the Working Groups will report on their work under the current ACDDE charter, which expires July 5, 2019.  The Broadcast Diversity and Development Working Group will present a summary report on the ACDDE March 7, 2019, broadcast symposium, “Exploring Strategies That Have Advanced Media Diversity.”  The Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group will report on its assessment of access, adoption, and use of broadband and new technologies by under-resourced communities.  The Diversity in Tech Working Group will report on its best practices guide pertaining to hiring, promotion, and retention of women and minorities in the tech industries.  

The ACDDE meeting is open to the public.  The FCC will accommodate as many attendees as possible; however, admittance will be limited to seating availability.  The Commission will also provide audio and/or video coverage of the meeting over the Internet from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live.  Open captioning will be provided for this event.  Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request.  Requests for such accommodations should be submitted via e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or by calling the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).  Such requests should include a detailed description of the accommodation needed.  In addition, please include a way for the FCC to contact the requester if more information is needed to fill the request.  Please allow at least five days advance notice for accommodation requests; last minute requests will be accepted but may not be possible to accommodate.

Members of the public may submit comments to the ACDDE in the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System, ECFS, at www.fcc.gov/ecfs.  Comments to the ACDDE should be filed in GN Docket No. 17-208.

More information about the ACDDE is available at https://www.fcc.gov/advisory-committee-diversity-and-digital-enpowerment.  You may also contact Jamila Bess Johnson, the Designated Federal Officer for the Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment, at (202) 418-2608, or Jamila-Bess.Johnson@fcc.gov, or Brenda Villanueva, the Deputy Designated Federal Officer, at (202) 418-7005 or Brenda.Villanueva@fcc.gov.


		
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