
Save the Date for the 2023 Digital Equity Challenge
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 6 p.m.
Innovation Hub Haverhill
2 Merrimack St., 3rd Floor, Haverhill, MA 01830
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 6 p.m.
Innovation Hub Haverhill
2 Merrimack St., 3rd Floor, Haverhill, MA 01830
Help expand digital access with your entrepreneurial ideas and solutions. Enter the 2023 Digital Equity Challenge pitch contest!
The Digital Equity Challenge is presented by the UMass Lowell Innovation Hub Haverhill and Essex County Community Foundation.
Across Essex County, one out of every five households lacks a basic computer. A similar number — 59,000 households, with around 160,000 people — live without fixed broadband. (Source: ECCF, Striving for Digital Equity, 2020)
Essex County Community Foundation launched its Digital Equity Initiative in 2021 to ensure that all residents can effectively access and use the digital tools on which we rely daily. While there has been progress in the past year, inequities remain, particularly around access to computers, underutilization of federal programs, and profound racial disparities. (Source: ECCF, Making Progress on Digital Equity, 2022)
Through the 2023 Digital Equity Challenge – our second year hosting this event – we are tapping into your entrepreneurial spirit to find and cultivate creative solutions to these digital equity challenges.
Learn more about our 2022 Digital Equity Challenge winners.
Your Solution
Enter the Challenge and win prize money and support to advance your business or nonprofit idea.
We are seeking solutions, business models and new ventures (for profit or non-profit) that address one or more of the following key areas: