Creating Opportunity: New Jobs Require Digital Skills and Broadband
Monday, August 3, 2020
August 2020
Microsoft Aims for a Deal to Buy TikTok’s US Business (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 06:29TikTok Ban? Creators and Fans Are Big Mad (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 06:28Is Telemedicine Here to Stay? (Hint: I depends on Medicare and private health insurers) (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 06:28Submitted on August 3, 2020
“Middle-skill” jobs make up a large portion of the market, has positions to fill, but suffers from a dearth of trained workers—especially when it comes to digital skills.
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The great broadband divide: Living without high-speed internet access
As modern Americans, we count among our blessings that most of us have been able to keep going during this pandemic – working, educating our kids, consulting with our doctors – thanks to broadband Internet. That is, high-speed Internet.
Trump administration is crippling international Internet freedom effort by withholding funds, officials say
The Trump administration is withholding $20 million in funding approved by Congress for a US Internet freedom organization, forcing the cutoff of tools used by tens of millions of people worldwide to access the Internet and uncensored news through the Voice of America, officials said. Laura Cunningham, the head of the Washington-based Open Technology Fund, said that it is being forced to halt 49 of the fund’s 60 Internet freedom projects.
Congress and technology: Do lawmakers understand Google and Facebook enough to regulate them?
A sizable disconnect appears to exist between the technology Americans are using and depending on in their daily lives and the knowledge base of people with the power and responsibility to decide its future and regulation.