Blog – Digital Divide
My interest in providing a Digital Divide Blog is to capture some key interesting events either locally, nationally or globally. These events would indicate a moving-forward event or that of being stuck.
Furthermore, these types events show a point in time what the situation was and likely what improvements could yet be made.
Escalating Bandwidth Requirements and Costs – Digital Divide
As our mobile technologies progress, we rely on it much more and use it for many more reasons than we originally understood at the time of purchase. The 2 Gb or even 10 Gb data cap that many users have is not really serving us very well. With a now regular load of...
Learning from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic
So, most of us by now have settled in on our COVID -19 sequestration, lockdown, stay in place, stay-home whatever else they are calling it, wherever we live. Elementary and Secondary Schools throughout North America have had their classes shut down, often until the...
Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic
I started working entirely from home over a week ago, preempting the majority of small companies and other organizations as they started to respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic. All is going well here, and work is proceeding. To some extent. What is not really working so...
Ghana School Receives Support for their ICT Curriculum
This following story is quite inspirational and particularly appealing. The story is about one teacher in a small country with few resources, and how this teacher accomplished a great outcome for his school. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)...
Why rural areas can’t catch a break on speedy broadband
When Galen Manners was offered a promotion at his job, he didn't want to relocate to the big city from his family in rural Kansas, where he helped his two brothers run their 2,000-acre farm in his spare time. Shara Tibken/CNET His employer gave him the option to work...
Mobile Platforms and Costs – Digital Divide
Noted earlier was that mobile platforms need regular refreshing. One should be aware that there are more mobile devices in use today than desktop and laptop computers. These mobile devices come with two challenges. Firstly, the capital costs (either as a one-time fee...
A New Day for Connectivity in Winnipeg
From Wire Pairs to Fibre Optic Cable Winnipeggers were treated to somewhat of a surprise on March 2, 2020, when Bell MTS announced a major investment to replace the considerable copper wire throughout their city with fibre optics. A $400 million investment was...
Technology Obsolescence – Digital Divide
There is a need to swap out technology due to its obsolescence and advancements made elsewhere, in at times as little as two-year cycles. Noted here is that new mobile phones are introduced every two years or so, and while this rollout goes on, at times the older...
What is the Digital Divide?
The "Digital Divide" refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society, especially the poor, rural, elderly, and handicapped who do not have access to computers, or cell phones, or the internet; compared to the wealthy, middle-class, and young...