You may have noticed this column has a new name, What’s New in Digital Equity. It’s a change that’s been coming for some time. For the past five years, this feature has covered civic tech news. In ...

According to a 2023 article in Forbes, 42 million Americans have no access to broadband. In our interconnected world, lack of broadband feeds the digital divide, and if you think that doesn’t affect ...

Our society relies on the internet for education, jobs, and personal needs, yet our country’s digital divide has been an ongoing issue, affecting the 14.5 million Americans who don’t have access to ...

The digital divide has long been a simmering problem facing millions of students that took a global pandemic to bring to a boil. At the time, nearly 16 million students in the United States lacked ...

IRVING — It may seem like technology is everywhere, but not everyone can access it. Students across North Texas struggle to develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world without a ...

Bedford County is making big strides in closing the digital divide with a major boost in high-speed internet access. Thanks ...

Technology is ever-changing, and it has also become a line of division, highlighting differences in access to digital resources between communities. This divide hampers individual and societal ...

In January 2020, members of Congress held a hearing to discuss the importance of digital literacy and closing the digital divide, or who has access to broadband internet and who doesn’t. Just weeks ...

The 100 counties with the highest median income, about 95% of households have broadband access on average. In the 100 poorest counties, that number is just 63, according to the FCC. The White House ...

I have spent close to four decades working in economic development in and around New York City — an area that is both constantly changing and notoriously difficult in which to build. During that time, ...

The ability to adapt to new technologies can expose a significant generational divide, especially as Generation Z was born between 1997 to 2012, while the Silent Generation was born between 1928 and ...

Editor’s Note: Derrick Johnson is president and CEO of the NAACP. Geoffrey Starks is a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own.