Project LEIA is designed to help fill the gap in the agencies' information, namely the lack of reliable, single-year estimates of internet adoption for rural areas.
Project LEIA is a natural progression of the work NTIA and the Census Bureau have been undertaking for the last three decades: to enable evidence-based policymaking by understanding the state of computer and internet use in America.
According to NTIA, better understanding internet adoption in counties and other communities will lead to better tracking of U.S. attempts to close the digital divide.
Future work will include refining the initial model, and embarking on new experiments with more granular geographies and other important indicators of Internet adoption.
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