Articles related to Digital Inclusion

 

Broadband Connectivity

New York Makes Once-Vetoed Broadband Access Bill Law

Benjamin Joe / GovTech / April 13

How to expand internet access for Californians

Bill Quirk / Calmatters / April 13

Time to cut internet cords: T-Mobile, Verizon up their bids to be your next home broadband

Rob Pegoraro / USA Today / April 18

 

Broadband Services

Elon Musk’s Satellite Internet Project Is Too Risky, Rivals Say

Bojan Pancevski / The Wall Street Journal/ April 19

Connecticut City Works Toward Offering Free Internet Access

Greg Smith / GovTech / April 15

What’s New in Civic Tech: USDS Admin Stepping Down in April

Julia Edinger and Zack Quaintance / GovTech / April 15

 

Broadband Physical Infrastructure

Are We Ready For The Post-Covid World?

Paul Laudicina / Forbes / April 12

Why Biden’s Broadband Bonanza Is Likely to Fail

Andrea O’Sullivan / Reason / April 13

Biden’s Expansive Infrastructure Plan Is Economically Justified

Richard McGahey / Forbes / April 18

 

Disparities in Online Learning

For some kids, a year of slippage

Noah Yann Lee / Yale Magazine / April 15

Reopening schools is often framed as a matter of equity. Two Black educators ask: ‘Equity for whom?’

Valerie Strauss / The Washington Post / April 15

Covid-19 changed education in America — permanently

Marcella Bombardieri / Politico / April 15

 

Digital Divide

Smart Cities Connect Opens With Calls for Digital Equity

Skip Descant / GovTech / April 13

Young women are leaving school and work. Experts say caregiving may be the reason.

Alisha Haridasani Gupta / New York Times / April 12

Columbia, NYU Leaders See Hybrid Future for Higher Ed

Andrew Westrope / GovTech / April 13

Local Libraries of Things Help to Address Digital Inequity

Amy Burroughs / State Tech Magazine / April 15

California school district to vote on whether high-speed broadband is a human right

Bradford Betz / New York Post / April 15

Former FCC Chair on Building Back Better Under Biden

Tom Wheeler / GovTech / April 15

ProPublica Reporting Projects Recognized by Education Writers Association

ProPublica / April 15