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Posts tagged: Urban

Joshua Breitbart's picture

Solving Access from the Bottom Up

There is a difference between available and accessible. In New York City, practically every household has at least one option for moderate-speed Internet service. Most have two: Time Warner and Cablevision connect to 98% of households and Verizon offers DSL to 87%.

Yet less than half of the city purchases the service. Broadband adoption rates in the Bronx rival those in rural America.

Principle: Access Tags: Community Internet, Digital Divide, Policy, Social Justice, Urban
Malkia Cyril's picture

Access Is Our Civil Right

Like many people in the working class black neighborhood of West Oakland, CA where I live, I use the internet to search for information, check the news, pay bills, manage services, find entertainment and cultural events, and connect with friends and family. But unlike many of my neighbors I have wireless internet access that works at high speeds and costs almost $50.00 a month.

Principle: Access Tags: Big Media, Digital Divide, Infrastructure, Media Justice, Poverty, Rights, Social Justice, Telcos, Urban