Federal Communications Commission	DA 22-1106


DA 22-1106
            Released: October 19, 2022

FCC ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER 7, 2022 MEETING OF THE 
COMMUNICATIONS EQUITY AND DIVERSITY COUNCIL  

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2.
 this Public Notice announces the November 7, 2022, meeting of the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission) Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC or Council).  The CEDC meeting will be held virtually, beginning at 1:00 pm EST, and will be available to the public for viewing via the Internet at http://www.fcc.gov/live.  

The agenda for the meeting will include a report of the Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group, including recommendations, for addressing digital discrimination and other barriers that impact equitable access to broadband and other emerging technology in under-served and under-connected communities. This agenda may be modified at the discretion of the CEDC Chair and the Designated Federal Officer.  
  

The CEDC meeting will be convened in an online format and will be available to the public via live feed from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live.  The public may also follow the meeting on the Commission’s YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/fccdotgovvideo.  In addition, the public may follow the meeting on Twitter@fcc or via the Commission’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/fcc.  Members of the public may submit questions during the meeting to livequestions@fcc.gov.

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).  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 written comments to the CEDC using the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System, ECFS, at www.fcc.gov/ecfs.  Any comments should be filed in GN Docket No. 17-208.

More information about the CEDC is available at https://www.fcc.gov/communications-equity-and-diversity-council.  You may also contact Jamila Bess Johnson, the Designated Federal Officer for the Communications Equity and Diversity Council, at (202) 418-2608, or Jamila-Bess.Johnson@fcc.gov;or Keyla Hernandez-Ulloa, Co-Deputy Designated Federal Officer, at (202) 418-0965 or Keyla.Hernandez-Ulloa@fcc.gov; or Aurelie Mathieu, Attorney Advisor, WCB, at (202) 418-2194 or Aurelie.Mathieu@fcc.gov.


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