Politic 365’s Elesha Barnette reports on a new documentary project produced by the nonprofit organization One Economy, which works to connect unserved and underserved communities to technology:
“In the Hive” is the newest film from veteran writer, producer and director Robert Townsend, and it that tells the true story of Vivian Sanders, a cook at an alternative school who took on the responsibility of educating boys that no one else would.
Actors Loretta Devine, Michael Clarke Duncan and Vivica A. Fox star in “In The Hive,” which takes its name from a North Carolina school that focuses on technology. Newcomer Jonathan McDaniel stars as Xtra Keys, a gang member who is in and out of prison. The story is about his “last chance.”
In a commentary piece for the The Legislator, a publication from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Florida State Representative Mia L. Jones writes about the positive impacts of the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile for consumers:
What I like best about this merger is the impact it will have on technologically disenfranchised communities. Currently, the U.S. ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption, and 25th in terms of average Internet connection speeds. The merger will help improve the U.S. ranking in broadband adoption by increasing mobile broadband availability in small, rural communities. This will directly help achieve the FCC and President Obama’s goal to “connect every part of America to the digital age.”
Rep. Jones’ full commentary is worth checking it out. You can download a PDF of the August issue of The Legislator here.
Last week, IIA Strategic Counsel Henry M. Rivera spoke at the 2011 Educational Conference of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Below are his remarks. — IIA
It’s a pleasure and an honor to be here with you at LCLAA’s educational conference.
I did a little research on LCLAA and found that since its inception, LCLAA has worked tirelessly to advance the social, economic, political, human and civil rights of all Latinos and has provided a strong voice for Latino working families nationally. So I’m honored that i’ve been asked to address this distinguished organization.
I feel some kinship with LCLAA because throughout my career, beginning with my appointment to the FCC as the agency’s first Hispanic commissioner, I have had the privilege of advocating for policies designed to both promote and preserve equal opportunity and civil rights in the communications industries, and to close the digital divide. So I have long appreciated the magnitude of the challenges that LCLAA faces.
Following my brief remarks, you will hear from a distinguished panel on the role of broadband in creating jobs and closing the digital divide, an issue that is critical to all of us. So in the few minutes I have with you, I would like to give you an overview of what’s at stake in this debate, why we need to care, and why now is the right time to act.
In an editorial for The Detroit News, Lewis N. Dodak and Rick Johnson, both former speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives, make an impassioned case for guaranteeing everyone in America has access to broadband:
Wireless broadband is more than just our ability to download music. It allows public safety workers to exchange information in an emergency. It provides small business owners tools they need to compete with corporations. The 26 million Americans who lack broadband access are, in a sense, denied an equal shot at the American dream.
Our Co-Chairman Jamal Simmons has penned an op-ed for Tennessee’s Tri-State Defender on increasing access to broadband for minorities. Here’s a taste:
According to a Pew Internet and American Life Project study, almost two-thirds of African Americans and Latinos access the Internet through a mobile device or laptop, more than any other group. These devices require wireless broadband and unless the Federal government and America’s wireless phone companies strengthen the telecommunications networks Americans use, the information overload on the system will slow Internet use to a crawl. For those people still waiting for high-speed wireless access in rural communities, the wait could get even longer.
Over at Mashable, Zachary Sniderman has information on a new device from Intel that can help bridge the digital divide around the globe:
Intel has created a low-cost, high-function laptop designed to get beat up, dropped and deliver education to children around the world.
The Intel-powered convertible classmate PC is about the size and weight of two iPads stacked on top of one another with a soft rubber backing and carry handle. The idea was to get computers into young hands to connect them to a larger world and improve the learning experience in global classrooms, explains Wayne Grant, the director of research and planning for Intel’s Education Market Platforms Group.
The new laptop is expected to cost between $400-$500. While this is more expensive than the One Laptop Per Child project, Intel includes a software suite intended to help educate children — and teachers — how to get the most out of their new PC.
Any reasonable application of the public interest standard will find AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile to be a win-win. The deal expands broadband availability, increases investment, enhances network capacity and better serves those historically disenfranchised by lack of options in rural areas and communities of color.
Despite this, many false and uninformed mischaracterizations regarding the merger were entered into the record for competitive or ideological reasons in the first set of public comments submitted to the FCC. In our reply comments, we dispelled a number of those myths, including:
MYTH: The merger would be bad for broadband competition.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would enhance competition for broadband services.
MYTH: The merger would disserve rural communities.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would give 55 million more Americans access to LTE broadband services than the status quo.
MYTH: The merger would be bad for wireless prices and competition.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would continue a decade-long trend of falling wireless prices, expanding services and robust competition.
MYTH: The merger would reduce investment in broadband infrastructure and cut jobs.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would increase infrastructure investment by $8 billion for starters.
MYTH: The merger would undermine innovators and web-based entrepreneurs.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would meaningfully enhance the advanced wireless infrastructure so essential to next-generation mobile services.
MYTH: The merger would maintain the persistent “digital divide.”
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would accelerate the pace with which smart phones and wireless services are reducing race-and-diversity-based gaps in broadband adoption and usage.
MYTH: The merger would be bad for wireless consumers’ quality of service.
REALITY: Combining AT&T and T-Mobile would be the best thing that could happen for wireless consumers’ quality of service.
You can read our full reply comments, including supporting information, at the FCC website.
Unfortunately, while many mainstream small and medium-sized businesses have benefited from using mobile technology to connect with customers and suppliers, and to monitor their competition, far more – especially in the African American community – face hurdles when trying to harness this critical tool.
Why is that?
In part because many still lack access to it – especially in underserved urban and rural areas. Also, many who have access sometimes lack the digital skills needed to effectively use it.
Josh Smith of the National Journalreports Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) has penned a bill that would help subsidize Internet service for underserved communities:
“Income should not hinder the ability of hard-working American families to attain broadband services that have become a necessity, not a luxury in our technologically driven economy. If you don’t have it, you are simply at a competitive disadvantage,” Matsui, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, said in a statement.
More on the bill, called “The Broadband Affordability Act of 2011,” can be found at Rep. Matsui’s website.
The groups cited several specific areas in which commitments by AT&T as part of the merger process are likely to help Latinos. In strong terms, the groups urged the FCC to consider the combined companies’ commitment to expanding culturally sensitive education programs and robust internet adoption programs. Hispanic Americans have a special interest in these since Latino digital literacy rates are far behind the national average, especially for Spanish-speaking families. This acquisition, they write, “could be a catalyst for opening up high speed wireless broadband networks to underserved communities.”
In order to highlight some of the many ways increasing broadband access can benefit America’s rural communities, we’ve put together this handy infographic. Sources and an embed code are available at the bottom.
At The Huffington Post, the prolific Navarrow Wright, CTO of InteractiveOne (and an IIA Broadband Ambassador), has penned an op-ed on the importance of not letting government policy slow efforts to close America’s digital divide. After describing how access to technology radically changed his life for the better, Wright turns his attention to the benefits of the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile:
The benefits of this merger, both to underserved communities and to budding digital entrepreneurs, are innumerable. Not only will the increased coverage allow others to become involved in applications development who may otherwise have lacked sufficient coverage to do so, it will also supply services to network operators and assist in network management.
It is my hope that the power of the merged companies, with extended reach and larger area of deployment, will encourage further innovation and inspire entrepreneurship among those within underserved communities.
Our new co-chair, Jamal Simmons, has a column in Fierce Telecom today highlighting positive steps America can make to reach the goal of universal broadband. Here’s a taste:
For African Americans and Hispanics who use their cell phones to access the Internet more than any other group, traffic jams on the cellular onramp to what we used to call the information superhighway are just as frustrating. In just over a year, lawmakers, thought leaders and industry players have brought our nation significantly closer to easing that congestion by connecting every American with high-speed Internet at home and on the road. The five steps that have had, and will have, the greatest impact on achieving universal broadband are as follows…
At Internet Evolution, Andrew Keen writes about his trip to Paris to attend e-G8, a technological summit bringing Internet experts together with leaders of the G8 nations. According to Keen, the big takeaways from the summit were 1) The market, rather than the government, should drive the digital economy, and 2) Underprivileged communities are in dire need of access to broadband, which market solutions can provide. Writes Keen:
[The joining of AT&T and T-Mobile] shows the power of the free market to bring the Internet economy to communities. The faster speeds, more reliable performance, and ability to support new real-time services of AT&T’s 4G LTE coverage will be of massive benefit to those millions of Americans in isolated communities, helping to deliver key education, healthcare, and other essential social services to them.
Education and healthcare will particularly benefit from 4G LTE’s advanced video streaming capabilities, which will enable increased access to improved distance learning and telemedicine programs. For small-town Americans, mostly starved of world-class educational and medical programs, such access is critical, opening up their citizens to the most cutting-edge video-streamed technologies in patient care and e-learning.
Keen also examines the economic impact increased broadband investment — including the $8 billion AT&T has said it will invest to build out its 4G LTE network to more of rural America — will have on America’s economy:
Such investment is key to the competitiveness of America in the 21st century digital economy. Not only will these increased wireless and broadband services result in productivity gains that industry analysts estimate will have surpassed $400 billion by 2016, but they will also help in realizing the National Broadband Plan’s goal of universal broadband adoption for all Americans by 2014.
Local station WDAM aired a report on the state of broadband access in Mississippi. The results weren’t encouraging. From an article on the station’s website:
According to a recent poll, 77 percent of Americans have access to the Internet, but in Mississippi, that number drops to 59 percent - the lowest in the United States, and of those numbers about a third have access to high-speed Internet.
This is an issue which concerns experts like Homer Coffman, the chief information officer at the University of Southern Mississippi.
“Everything now is becoming digital,” he said. “Everything we are as Americans is in archives, it is all zeroes and ones now. The average teenager spends 31 hours a week on the Internet, so the question is the people out there in the rural areas that don’t have this access, are they at a disadvantage? They are growing up differently, they are going to act differently. It is going to be an impact parents have to consider about that child’s future.”
Here’s the station’s broadcast report:
While Mississippi is the state with the lowest ranking in broadband access, it’s sadly not the only state that needs help. The sooner we can connect underserved communities, the stronger the economy — and America as a whole — will be.
Broadband access has extensive implications for Hispanic Americans, including closing the gap in health disparities, reducing the digital divide and gaining access to quality education and job opportunities.
Two blog posts to highlight on this monday, both with a common theme: The first is from Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, where communications attorney Jorge Bauermeister highlights that while Hispanics remain on the wrong side of the digital divide, there is growing momentum thanks to mobile broadband:
According to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center, a link between Internet and cell phone adoption rates and levels of educational attainment and household income exists – the higher the educational attainment and income, the higher the rate of use. For many Hispanic families, access to broadband and cell phones continues to be a challenge for a range of reasons, including financial challenges – among other considerations.
The Pew Hispanic Center study also found Hispanics to be less likely than Caucasians to use the Internet, have a home broadband connection, or own a cellular phone. However, while only 45% of Latinos have home broadband access (compared to 52% of African Americans and 65% of white Americans), younger Latinos are increasingly going online and using their cell phones. In fact, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, “from 2009 to 2010, the share of Latinos ages 18 to 29 who were online jumped from 75% to 85%, and the share with cell phones rose from 81% to 90%.”
Next up is a guest editorial at Latina Lista penned by Jason A. Llorenz, Executive Director of the Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership (and an IIA Broadband Ambassador). After digging even deeper into the digital divide problem, he encourages policymakers to help, rather than hinder, efforts to bridge it:
The digital economy means digital skills are not only a matter of economic necessity but survival in the globally connected and competitive marketplace. With public policies that favor broadband access and the expansion of digital skills, small businesses will prosper and strengthen the communities they serve.
The challenges are real and so is the potential to ensure our nation’s continued prosperity. Ultimately, policymakers and businesses leaders must recognize the importance of policies that support digital literacy to fuel innovation and drive the recovery that we expect for America.
At PBS, Katia Savchuk reports on the miserable state of broadband deployment on Native American lands and efforts to remedy the situation:
Perhaps nowhere in the United States does the digital divide cut as wide as in Indian Country. More than 90 percent of tribal populations lack high-speed Internet access, and usage rates are as low as 5 percent in some areas, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Sascha Meinrath, director of New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative calls it “a travesty.”
“You have a community that perhaps treasures media and cultural production more than almost any other constituency in the country, and you have an entire dearth of access to new media production and dissemination technology,” Meinrath said.
Reporting for the Miami Herald, Mimi Whitefield looks at the role so-called LAN Houses — makeshift cybercafés in homes or garages — are playing in closing Brazil’s digital divide:
Some might call LAN House operators who often don’t pay software licensing fees and frequently use illegally modified games, media pirates. But others say what Canuto and more than 100,000 other LAN House operators across Brazil are doing is allowing the poor to access software and social media networks and to develop computer skills. While the LAN houses are places to socialize and the games are a big draw, users also learn how computers work, how to create emails, set up social networking accounts, how to access government services and pay their utility bills online.
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