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Digital Download
Digital Access Monthly Newsletter
October 2025
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The Digital Download is your place for monthly updates from the Colorado Digital Access team.
The Digital Access Team is led by the Office of the Future of Work in partnership with the Office of eHealth Innovation. The state’s digital access infrastructure work is supported by the Colorado Broadband Office, which oversees Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) and other broadband infrastructure funding.
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Digital Access Updates
New Partnership Tool: Digital Access Dashboard
In July, the Digital Access Team partnered with Visible Network Labs to launch the Path Forward for Digital Access survey. The responses are available as a new tool that visualizes state-wide partnerships: the Path Forward for Digital Access Report. The Digital Access Team will host conversations about the tool at Colorado Digital Access Coalition meetings to ensure its usefulness for stakeholders and guide the team’s work. It will be updated periodically as the data is analyzed. Note: It may take a few minutes for the report to load.
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Survey Goals
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Ultimate Outcomes
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Collect information about who is offering what, what resources they have, and share this with communities.
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Communities know who offers what and can streamline services at the community-wide level.
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Collect information about local assets and challenges.
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Build a statewide picture of what digital access assets and challenges exist at the local level.
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Understand how local organizations react to our operational definition of digital access.
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Better understand how local organizations think about local access.
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Understand what concerns organizations have about the future.
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Plan for the future of digital access in Colorado.
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Join the Discussion
We invite all stakeholders to continue debriefing the results from the Visible Networks Lab survey and data on the Path Forward for Digital Access Report by attending an upcoming Colorado Digital Access Coalition meeting. We will be discussing how this resource can be applied in your work and how it can be leveraged to drive digital access forward. Register on Zoom to attend the next Colorado Digital Access Coalition meeting on Friday, December 5, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:00 PM. Watch the recording from the previous discussion.
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 Contribute to the Digital Download: Share Your Digital Access Resources
The Digital Access Team is committed to being a community connector, and that means highlighting the incredible work happening across our state! We invite you to submit your resources, lessons, and success stories to be featured in the Digital Download newsletter and on our website. Have a story of local impact? Do you have a tool to help Digital Navigators? Want to provide updates from a community-led initiative? We want to hear from you!
What Resources Could You Share?
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Success Stories and Case Studies: Tell us about an effective program, a positive outcome, or a challenge your community overcame.
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Resources and Tools: Share templates, guides, checklists, or educational materials that other organizations can adapt and use.
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Lessons Learned: Help the community by sharing a challenge you faced and the key takeaways or insights that resulted.
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Upcoming Events: Promote your digital access events, workshops, or webinars.
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Digital Access Events
Colorado Digital Access Coalition Meeting - NEW!
If you are a digital inclusion practitioner or someone who wants to know more about digital inclusion work in Colorado, please join us for our monthly Colorado Digital Access Coalition meetings! The coalition will connect digital inclusion practitioners and content expertise from around the state together to tackle the state’s barriers to digital inclusion. Register on Zoom to attend the next Digital Access Coalition meeting, on Friday, December 5, 2025, from 1:00 - 2:00 PM.
There is no meeting in November as we transition to this new monthly meeting that brings together our Digital Access Stakeholder and Working Group members.
Navigator Community of Practice
Navigators, staff who support them, and other stakeholders are invited to attend the monthly Community of Practice (CoP), which is on the last Wednesday of each month. Register to attend the next Navigator CoP meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 8:30 AM.
We welcome all kinds of navigators to this meeting, because if you help people navigate healthcare, employment, or any other system, you’re likely doing so online. Many Coloradans’ first introduction to using a computer happens when they need to access a healthcare portal or to apply for a job online. This space is for anyone who helps others navigate online tasks. Please join us!
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Contact Us
Digital Access Team
Colorado Dept of Labor & Employment
633 17th Street, Suite, 201
Denver, CO 80202
digitalaccess@state.co.us
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