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Broadband Can Help Fix Social Inequities

  • B&C, Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:45 PM
The Internet has the potential to "exacerbate in equality," which is why universal broadband deployment and adoption is so important, said the FCC's top broadband advisor Blair Levin, at the Minority Media & Telecommunications Association's conference on Broadband and Social Justice.

While closing the digital divide was no guarantee of redressing all social ills, he said access can help to provide better jobs, education, health care and government services. To do it, libraries and community centers must be wired into the social structure. "We must ensure that there are no digital second class citizens," Levin said.

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