Yesterday, we had a fantastic conversation with Public Knowledge‘s Chris Lewis on Digital Redlining. You can catch the full broadcast here. Its not a coincidence that the old redlining maps, which racially restricted housing, align almost perfectly with the current mapping of broadband access. And this lack of connections in places like Oakland is not…
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More Families Have Broadband Access But the Internet Isn’t Desegregated Yet
Last year, Great School Voices leader Dirk Tillotson urged the nation on his Citizen Ed show Access Denied to pursue an #InternetForAll agenda to get all kids connected to the internet regardless of their families’ ability to pay for internet service provider bills. In times of lockdown, after all, how else are students supposed to…
Struggling with Access? 29 Million Families Are Eligible for Free Broadband NOW and Haven’t Applied for the Benefits, Short and Long Term Answers to the Digital Divide And More in Our Latest Podcast
When Covid hit, 16 million children couldn’t adequately access virtual schooling. The number is now at 12 million, we need to get it to zero. This is 100% doable. And there are some current programs like the Emergency Broadband Benefit, which pays $50-75 per month for broadband, and is only being used by 15% of…
Desegregate the Internet; How We can Create Digital Equity in the Wake of COVID
Tomorrow is the launch of our new podcast, “Desegregate the Internet; Access Granted” please join us at 1 pacific. We will break down how we can all work together to desegregate the internet. We have some national digital divide experts, and we will be picking up where our last podcast, Access Denied, left off. W.E.B.…
Don’t forget about Home Schoolers When We Address the Digital Divide
“Hi, my 7th grader is in need of a computer and internet. She is currently doing zoom classes via smartphone. This is not fully sustainable.”- An Oakland parent This from an Oakland parent struggling with distance learning. We have “Oakland Undivided” the City’s program to provide free internet and devices to Oakland families that need…