The Dane County Board created the Dane County Broadband Task Force via 2020 RES-415.  The task force has been meeting monthly since its creation to hear presentations and discuss the various components of broadband, success stories, innovative ideas, funding options, and other counties’ experiences.  In 2024 the Broadband Task Force was reconstituted to address the following issues:

• Increase outreach and awareness of the importance of improving broadband access, affordability, and adoption in Dane County;
• Identify and foster partnerships necessary to improve broadband access, affordability, and adoption including those with economic development organizations, mission based organizations, and other entities engaged in digital inclusion and equity work.
• Encourage and support public private partnerships between municipalities and Dane County with internet service providers to address connectivity gaps and leverage state 3and/or federal funding sources such as the BEAD Program and RDOF Program.
• Implement the broadband engineering assessment findings
• Continue research and innovation based on the recommendations from the Dane County Broadband Task Force.