digital divide
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37 Per Cent of the World’s Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population now have the opportunity to waste away their life online just like you. Specifically, around 2.9 billion (or 37%) of the world’s population have still never used the internet, with the vast majority of those people residing in developing countries. Those figures are part of a new report conducted…
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SpaceX’s Still-in-Beta Starlink ISP Gets a Billion Dollars to Try and Fix Rural Internet
SpaceX just scored nearly a billion dollars to improve rural internet in the U.S despite not yet launching its satellite-based Starlink ISP nationally.
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Democrats Seek Billions For U.S. Students Trapped At Home With Useless-to-Nonexistent Internet
Classrooms are deserted and parents are grappling with exceptional challenges under the nationwide lockdown. None face a greater disadvantage, however, than those living in broadband dead zones. In poor and rural areas, many parents are driving their kids every day to the first place they can find with good wifi. The destinations for some students…