Digital Inclusion About More Than Connectivity

Ensuring that all Americans have access to broadband is about more than ensuring high-speed Internet connectivity, said Rey Ramsey, the CEO of the One Economy, a non-profit organization promoting a philosophy of “digital inclusion.” In addition to ensuring that broadband is present, affordable and available for adoption by low-income Americans, groups aiming to make a difference in stemming the digital divide must also focusing on human capital and digital media content, he said. "It is important to attack everything on the supply and demand side,” said Ramsey, rather than focus merely on the availability of broadband in a particular community. “So much attention is placed on the connectivity” piece of broadband. Ramsey said specifically that Internet speeds needed to be included in analyses of digital inclusion. “We have to upgrade the thinking. We are falling behind in terms of speed,” he said of measurements of U.S. broadband. And he criticized the Federal Communications Commission’s inclusion of office use of the Internet in its broadband statistics. “We should only be looking at high-speed in the home.”
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