Posts tagged: Social Justice
Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders
The issue of 'access' to internet is extremely important for us at Youth Noise. We are primarily an online entity and we use our website to inspire dialogue, action, and localized campaigns around causes that our users create and engage within.
We have great user-generated content coming from all corners of the US and some internationally.
Change or Cha-Ching
Change has come to America. Well, sort of.
On "K" Street - home to Washington's most powerful corporate lobbyists - it's business as usual.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the scrum of lobbyists gathering around President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Some reasons why access is important...
Democracy
Free speech
Social justice
Opportunity
Communication
Obama's Democracy Stimulus
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday delivered his first major speech of the new year, pledging to "put the American Dream within reach of the American people."
A core component of Obama's economic recovery plan is "expanding broadband lines across America" to give everyone the chance to get online.
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.
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.
Healthy Internet
The Internet can have a profound impact on the health of large numbers of people and can change the lives of patients that physicians see every day. As a physician for over three decades, one thing has become clear to me – that more and more people do not get the support they need to be healthy.
Helping the Most Vulnerable
World-class broadband service is not a luxury -- not for doctors and patients who rely on it to send life-altering medical information, not for the disabled who rely on it as a communications lifeline and not for the public safety officials who rely on it to keep our streets safe.
