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Monday, July 30

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Talking Adoption of Broadband

By Brad

Kenneth Mallory and Tiffany Bain on Politic365 have written a good wrap-up of last week’s National Urban League panel “Job Creation and Education: Programmatic Efforts to Increase Broadband Adoption in African American Communities,” which featured the likes of FCC Commission Mignon Clyburn and Minority Media and Telecommunications Council President David Jonig, among others. Here’s a taste:

The panelists underscored that Internet was essential to living a meaningful life in the 21st century. Honig illustrated four main advantages of adopting broadband – having greater access to healthcare (through tele-health technologies), education, job opportunities, and civic engagement.

Tags: broadband access, digital divide, fcc

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