WIN Measures Update:

Measuring Environment & Infrastructure

Supported by Well-being and Equity (WE) in the World

�Thursday, September 15, 2022

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Jordana Barton-García, Senior Fellow, ConnectHumanity.Fund

tatiana seryán, System Change Organizer, Extinction Rebellion's Global Support and Money Rebellion

Welcome and Introductions

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As you join the meeting, please share your name, affiliation, and one item that is on your environment & infrastructure data wish list in the chat box.

Session Agenda

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• Brief Overview of WIN Measures��
• Speaker Presentations
• Jordana Barton-García, Senior Fellow, ConnectHumanity.Fund
• tatiana seryán, System Change Organizer, Extinction Rebellion's Global Support and Money Rebellion �
• Breakout Discussions: What additional environment & infrastructure measures would you recommend?�

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• Reflections and Announcements

Measuring Equity in Environment & Infrastructure

Who

A strategic network of organizations, individuals, and communities united by common purpose

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Goals

• Advance intergenerational well-being and equity
• Change cultures and systems that perpetuate legacies of trauma and exclusion
• Cultivate the vital conditions that everyone needs to thrive

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How

We aim to catalyze change through:

• Building shared stewardship to support resilience and renewal
• Transforming our relationships and our narratives
• Transforming our system of measurement to one that is equitable, centers well-being for people and places, and shares power with communities
• Shifting policies and investments to build an inclusive and equitable economy

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What is the Well-Being in the Nation (WIN) Network?

WIN Measure Domains

By applying a racial justice frame to the WIN Measures, we aim to prioritize, develop and restore Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities using data that tells a complete and transparent story. In order to be effective and explicitly anti-racist, we must go beyond the identification of disparate outcomes across racial groups. We seek to include measures that:�8

• Address equitable input in decision-making
• Promote equitable access and opportunity
• Highlight community-based assets and values
• Lift-up promising interventions, remedies, and solutions
• Expose systemic racism

8�Further, we seek to disaggregate data, where possible, and apply an intersectional perspective in order to highlight the unique needs and characteristics of each racial and ethnic group.

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What do we mean by racial justice?

By applying an intergenerational well-being lens to the WIN measures, we intend to recognize:

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• How different age cohorts experience well-being within each of the domains

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• How the well-being of different groups is connected across generations

�In doing so, we will reflect the complex intersectional nature of the domains, that addressing disparities and inequities will require strategies which will have long term impact over generations, and of the need to develop multi-generational longitudinal measuring strategies.

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What do we mean by intergenerational well-being?

WIN Measures Update Process

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Environment & Infrastructure Domain: Pre-Readings

Environment & Infrastructure Pre-readings

Health

Environment & Infrastructure

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�As you reflect on the presenters’ remarks today, we would like for you to consider

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�What are the opportunities the current moment offers us in terms of equity in environment & infrastructure measurement?

Reflection: Racial Justice and Intergenerational Well-being

Jordana Barton-García, MPA�Senior Fellow

Connect Humanity

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Speaker

Digital Equity for Community Well-being

WIN MEASURES LISTENING SESSION, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

JORDANA BARTON-GARCIA, SENIOR POLICY FELLOW

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The Digital Economy and

Economic Justice

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Barton-Garcia Advisors, adapted 2022

• Income and wealth inequality are at the highest levels since the Great Depression. Survey of Consumer Finances, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2017) finds that “the distribution of income and wealth has grown increasingly unequal.”

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• Pew Research Center: “America’s upper-income families have a median net worth that is nearly 70 times that of the country’s lower-income families, also the widest wealth gap between these families in 30 years.” (Pew, 2017)

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• Great Gatsby Curve in Economics: Greater income inequality is associated with diminished intergenerational mobility. Children will not do better than their parents, further cementing the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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The Digital Divide & Intergenerational Poverty

Broadband: A Platform for all Areas of the Community Reinvestment Act and Community Development

• Essential Infrastructure

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• Workforce Development and Education

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• Access to Financial Services

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• Small Business Development

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• Affordable Housing

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• Access to Health Care/Healthy Communities

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• Disaster Response and Recovery

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Adapted by Jordana Barton-Garcia from: Measures & Data Sources | County Health Rankings Model. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. Accessed September 8, 2020.

Social Determinants of Health: The Role of Hospital Systems and Clinics

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Broadband is a Cross-cutting Factor and a “Super” Social Determinant of Health

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Best Practices

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Connect Humanity Model

Digitalization is happening.

Digital equity depends on all of us.

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• Take holistic approach: Include the “three legs of the stool” of digital inclusion.
• Support digital inclusion programs that consider the barriers to adoption people experience. Incorporate locally relevant content: Basic digital literacy for telehealth for older residents, a Digital Navigator program to train community members for paid digital skills outreach, digital skills and tools for micro-businesses, digital skills for workforce development, paid student-run help desk
• Training programs for youth and adults should cover internet safety and security.
• Communities should consider the internet speed that will meet their economic development goals.
• Local governments should create their digital inclusion plans as part of their economic development plans.

Best Practices

Best Practices: Broadband Deployment Models

• Practice Asset-Based Community Development: Identify the owners of digital assets in your community. Do you have a local small business ISP or Co-op that is interested in expanding? Who are the stakeholders and anchor institutions? Invite them to the table.
• Open Access Network: Local government owns middle-mile to efficiently run its operations and lease access to Internet Service Provider (ISP) to build the last mile under terms that include a low-income offering to close the digital divide.
• Joint Operational Model: Local government owns and maintains the Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network and partners with a private ISP to operate the network and run the business that includes high-speed low-income offering.
• Municipal ISP: Local government(s) own, maintain, and operate the network and run the business incorporating low-income offering.
• Combination Public-Private Partnership: The partnership you choose can be any combination of the above
• Stakeholder Collaborative Partnership Model: A Public-Private collaborative model can involve a collaboration between some combination of local government(s), local ISPs, co-ops, hospital systems and clinics, non-profits, schools, universities, banks, et. al., joining together on broadband infrastructure expansion and digital inclusion/telehealth projects to meet their specific needs.

Jordana Barton-Garcia, Barton-Garcia Advisors, 2022

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South TX Digital Equity Progress– Pharr, Hidalgo Co.

• The Texas Border Colonias Study revealed the impact of the digital divide in the border region. Residents of Pharr and surrounding colonias, the Mayor, City staff, PSJA School District, key anchor institutions, the Federal Reserve, and banks came together to address the issue.
• Phase 1- Commissioned its community survey and feasibility study, supported by BBVA Bank, now PNC, under the CRA.
• Chose the Municipal ISP Model and have now created TeamPharr.net.
• Capital: Phase 2-4 -ARPA Funds, Municipal Bond, and Phase 5 is open to other investments including grants
• Designing complimentary digital inclusion/workforce development programs

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• Of U.S. cities of 50,000+ households, Brownsville ranked as the worst connected city—the least access to fixed broadband. (Barton, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, analysis of US Census American Community Survey, 2018)

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• 67 percent of households in Brownsville lack fixed internet subscription

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• We convened with residents and community leaders to make a plan and conduct the community survey

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• Brownsville chose a Public-Private Partnership Model

• Lit Communities completed the plan with Brownsville—now the City is building its robust middle-mile funded by ARPA dollars. $90mm Project Total, $20mm Middle Mile funded by ARPA dollars (phase 1), $70 mm last mile (Phase 2) will be managed by BTX Fiber/Lit Communities through some combination of equity investments, banks under CRA, NMTC, grants.

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• Brownville Wins National Digital Equity and Accessibility Award from the IDC 2022 Smart City Awards

South TX Digital Equity Progress: Brownsville

COVID-19 presented challenges for families lacking internet connectivity and technology for remote learning. Photo courtesy of the Housing Authority of the City of Brownsville

“Like electricity and telephone in the twentieth century, fiber is a precondition of sustained, broadly shared growth in the twenty-first.”�

-SUSAN CRAWFORD, FIBER: THE COMING TECH REVOLUTION

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Q & A

Jordana Barton-Garcia

Principal, Barton-Garcia Advisors

and Senior Fellow, Connect Humanity

Jordana@barton-garcia.com or Jordana@conncecthumanity.fund

Mobile: 512-731-7223

tatiana seryán�Extinction Rebellion's Global Support and Money Rebellion

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Speaker

Breakout Discussion

• What additional environment & infrastructure measures would you add to advance racial justice and intergenerational well-being? Consider:
• Natural environment
• Climate change
• Public works
• Neighborhood characteristics
• Built environment
• Broadband access

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• What narrative frameworks need to be lifted up or need to be avoided?

Link to Google Doc

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What key ideas and recommendations emerged during your small group discussion?

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Report Out

• Participate in upcoming community prioritization process - look for email and social media announcements in the coming months!
• Share these opportunities with your clients and community members.
• Visit our WIN Measures Update page for the latest information: https://winnetwork.org/win-measures-updates
• Continue to add your reflections and ideas to the Google doc that was shared during today’s session
• Send us your feedback. Email: kristen.rego@weintheworld.org

We invite you to remain actively involved!

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