{"id":1836,"date":"2020-08-20T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2020-08-20T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:56:05","slug":"covid-improved-the-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/covid-improved-the-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Improved the Digital Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples of how the digital divide was closer to closed because of COVID:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Seattle&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/southseattleemerald.com\/2020\/07\/31\/city-of-seattle-and-comcast-invest-100000-to-address-digital-equity-with-digital-bridge-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Bridge pilot program<\/a> connecting low-income residents with low-cost refurbished laptops<\/li><li>Seattle partnered with Wave Broadband to offer low-income households free home Internet for 60 days<\/li><li>Washington State created Wi-Fi hot spots across the state<\/li><li>Chattanooga, TN &amp; Hamilton County, TN announced\u00a0a 10 year initiative to offer no-cost high-speed home Internet to the 28,500 children who receive free or reduced-price school lunches \u2014 about 60% of the county school system&#8217;s students<\/li><li>Philadelphia\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/education\/comcast-free-internet-access-students-philadelphia-school-district-20200806.html#loaded\" target=\"_blank\">is connecting 35,000 families<\/a>\u00a0with no-cost Internet from Comcast for the next two years<\/li><li>San Antonio, TX pledged\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/news_columnists\/elaine_ayala\/article\/Ayala-San-Antonio-s-stimulus-proposal-reads-15315660.php?mc_cid=ccb50b24df&amp;mc_eid=99f8eeff44\" target=\"_blank\">to invest more than $27 million<\/a>\u00a0to provide broadband access through private wireless networks using existing fiber infrastructure on traffic lights<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/community\/Some-Encouraging-Steps-on-the-Path-to-Digital-Inclusion.html?utm_term=Some%20Encouraging%20Steps%20on%20the%20Path%20to%20Digital%20Inclusion&amp;utm_campaign=Legislative%20Watch%3A%20Paradoxes%20of%20the%202020-2021%20School%20Year&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing | Some Encouraging Steps on the Path to Digital Inclusion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples of how the digital divide was closer to closed because of COVID: Seattle&#8217;s Digital Bridge pilot program connecting low-income residents with low-cost refurbished laptops Seattle partnered with Wave Broadband to offer low-income households free home Internet for 60 days Washington State created Wi-Fi hot spots across the state Chattanooga, TN &amp; Hamilton County, TN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}