CU Boulder conference to focus on ‘digital divide’

BOULDER — A conference designed to examine effects of efforts to extend high-speed Internet access to underserved areas and populations has been scheduled for Sept. 17 at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Titled “Closing the Digital Divide,” the conference will be held from 1 to 6:30 p.m. in the CU law school’s Wittemyer Courtroom — the same venue in which Federal Communications Commission chief Tom Wheeler in February outlined the government’s plan to regulate the Internet as a utility in an effort to make more-efficient broadband service available to rural and minority communities.

The concept of the “digital divide” emerged in the…