hi I'm Angela Seaver I'm told to stand over here I'm in from Columbus Ohio it's
very exciting to see everything that you all are doing I feel like I'm gonna be
the downer right I'm here to tell you things aren't all rosy but that just
makes me unpopular so I got to turn that around so ndia is National Digital
Inclusion alliance we've been around for a little over three years but our job is
to be the unified voice for digital equity in the United States so here's
what digital equity is this is this is the goal this is what we want to get to
and it's really it's what you've all been talking about right you've been
talking about how you want to get to everybody participating in these
fabulous societies where we are all much more efficient and safe than we were
before so we've had to come up with some terms for all of this because the folks
that are doing this work on the ground we all everybody's doing it but we
weren't all calling it the same things so these are the definitions so Digital
Inclusion then is what it is that the activities that get us to the goal right
Digital Inclusion is what get us to digital equity so this is what I'm going
to talk about in my brief five minutes is the home access the digital literacy
that devices the tech support in the applications in the United States 33% of
Americans don't have broadband at home this doesn't mean they don't have they
couldn't have broadband at home it means that they don't have broadband at home
because they're not subscribing to broadband 1/3 of Americans aren't
subscribing to broadband Denver households 24% so you're a little better
the national average but still afraid represent is not a good number right and
if we get into the folks that have a lower income you have even more folks on
a hybrid being at home so why what's the problem I don't have Oaks have broadband
at home it's the biggest barrier that is out
there is cost it's expensive and if we want the smart cities to be involving
everybody we got to make sure first of all they have broadband at home because
if you get something into a coding camp and they take their homework home and
they can't practice right but there are solutions there are lots
of great things going on out there and just as Megan was discussing earlier you
know bringing folks together figuring out what to do the solutions around this
problem tend to be local and they tend not to be anybody that was
in a high level of authority right its neighbors getting together and saying we
have a problem and we need to solve this problem so what they do is they figure
out how to teach each other digital literacy right how do we use the
Internet how do we use it safely and for some
folks it's even how to use a mouse but there this is we got to make sure that
everybody knows how to use it and here's the other challenge is that we have a
continuum of learning right all of this technology is always changing most of us
in here probably learned through our friends the Internet itself but if the
internet scares you or you don't have it you're not gonna learn from the internet
you need to learn from a trusted source those trusted sources tend to be in the
communities they are community based organizations they are libraries
sometimes they're municipalities and the municipalities in this whole fascinating
situation are really there they're the for me and I've been doing this for a
long time they're the new hey we're gonna get into this we're gonna solve it
and that's super exciting we want those miss abilities in so what happens is
there's the infrastructure issue right and so in some communities they just
figure out how to build it themselves in other communities that's not an option
and so it ends up being what are how can we make this as cheap as possible
sometimes it's just library access or McDonald's you've all heard those
stories right folks doing their life their homework at the library or at the
McDonald's or the Starbucks but it's also what's wanting to make sure that
folks can do it at home so there are discount offers but a lot
of those working in the community don't even know the discount offers exists
some of the providers were encouraged by the FCC to have low-cost offers and so
these low-cost offers are there Comcast AT&T
charter quite a few of them had them some of the smaller companies too but
the digital literacy is different right because that is something that never
ends we have to keep teaching folks keep teaching folks because that's just
constantly changing these are a lot of the programs throughout the United
States and it's pretty awesome because they just figured it out but what this
also means is that we don't have to recreate the wheel as we're trying to
figure out how to get folks connected we look at who else already has these
programs set up this is probably one of my favorite photos ever how desperate
would you be to for your internet would you lug your PC to the library and sit
outside because the library is actually closed but you can get the Wi-Fi through
the walls pretty awesome thank you
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