[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: On Tech: Think local about the digital divide

Thu Dec 3 09:50:18 PST 2020

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Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 10:23 AM
Subject: On Tech: Think local about the digital divide
To: <tom at jtjohnson.com>

DIY internet projects like this one in the Bronx may help us get more
Americans online.
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December 3, 2020
Think local about the digital divide
Nicole Ginelli
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A rooftop in the Bronx may point a way to a better internet in the United
States.

On a recent Monday, workers bolted an internet antenna — a flat,
rectangular-shaped box fitted onto a metal pole — to the side of the
rooftop of a Catholic school in the South Bronx. It beams free wireless
internet to people who live in the immediate area. About 38 percent of
Bronx residents don’t have home internet
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even higher than the 29 percent for all of the city.

The pandemic has put a spotlight on America’s pernicious gap
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between those who can get online and those who can’t because internet lines
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— or all of the above.

The Bronx project, led in part by a clean energy start-up called BlocPower
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and community organizations including South Bronx Churches
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is among many that try to tackle this big problem by thinking small. The
initiative uses technology that creates improvised internet signals that
cover a defined area with relatively little hassle, bureaucracy or cost.

Small-scale internet projects like this are far from perfect. They can
struggle for lack of money, technology problems or failures to get
residents involved.

But people I’ve spoken to who are pushing for better and more fair online
access in the United States say that small-scale internet networks, in
combination with savvier government funding and policies, are part of the
solution to America’s digital divide. And we might be seeing more of these
efforts: New York officials said in July that they planned to redirect
taxpayer money from the Police Department to help fund more community
internet networks
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Donnel Baird
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BlocPower’s chief executive, said that he wants to help prove that it
doesn’t necessarily cost a fortune for local officials, business executives
and community groups to expand internet access in big cities.

“There is no reason people in New York, Detroit and Chicago shouldn’t have
internet access,” Baird told me. “This is a totally solvable problem.”

Initiatives like the one in the South Bronx are essentially sophisticated
DIY internet projects. Organizations like BlocPower pay fees to gain access
to existing internet lines owned by cable or phone companies, and antennas
installed on high spots like rooftops pass the internet signals from point
to point.

Wireless receivers installed inside residences or commercial buildings
carry the signals farther. In these types of systems, typically called mesh
internet, each new antenna makes the internet connections for everyone
stronger and more reliable.
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There are small commercial internet providers that use this or similar
technologies, including Monkeybrains in the Bay Area
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and Brooklyn Fiber in New York
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as well as government- or community-run small internet networks, such as
the wireless internet network in Coshocton County, Ohio,
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and The Point
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in the Bronx.

Small-scale projects aren’t a panacea. Some municipal internet programs
have struggled, and Baird and others involved in local internet networks
say they can’t succeed unless residents have some ownership and authority
over them. The BlocPower network is just getting started, and it’s too soon
to tell if it will catch on.

This is not a new problem, nor are politicians’ pledges to do something
about it. President Trump
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and now President-elect Joe Biden
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have said they want to bring internet service to more Americans.

But the more I’ve spoken to people about this problem, the more I believe
the solution won’t be a Big Bang fix but instead a diversity of approaches
involving better government funding and less chaotic policies at the
federal level
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as well as self-interested corporations
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and
local community groups or towns running their own internet networks
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tailored to their needs. Our colleagues at DealBook have a package of ideas
to fix America, and one suggestion was to give every kid a computer
<https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/kXnhbif5H-M4im32HCOM-Q~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRhq6QZP4QEAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tL2xpdmUvMjAyMC9maXgtYW1lcmljYS1lY29ub215LWNsaW1hdGUtaGVhbHRoP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTE1OCZlbWM9ZWRpdF9vdF8yMDIwMTIwMyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNDY3NiZubD1vbi10ZWNoLXdpdGgtc2hpcmEtb3ZpZGUmcmVnaV9pZD03NTIwNjQmc2VnbWVudF9pZD00NTk5NCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9OTU3NmRkM2MwMThmYmFmZWRjMGI0Y2E1NTI5ZjZkYWYjbWFyY2Vsby1jbGF1cmUtaW50ZXJuZXQtYWNjZXNzVwNueXRCCgBCGR_JXzOJZx1SEXRvbUBqdGpvaG5zb24uY29tWAQAAAAA>
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This year has left me mostly enraged at the state of our internet in
America. These conversations have made me hopeful that thinking local could
be part of the answer.

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Teaching to empty screens is like a ‘séance’

My colleague Natasha Singer
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wrote a great article this week about the strain educators are facing
during the pandemic
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from teaching in the classroom, remotely or in combination, while they and
their students are also trying to stay safe and deal with home challenges.
It’s a lot.

Natasha also wrote this dispatch about the unintended consequences of
students’ technology use that are complicating virtual learning:

One of the most demoralizing aspects of pandemic teaching, educators told
me, is not being able to see their remote students.

That is because, in schools that offer privacy choices
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many students keep their webcams or audio turned off during live video
lessons. Indeed, some students are interacting with their teachers only by
typing comments in a chat connected to the video. Many educators say they
are now teaching live video lessons to empty screens
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“We often joke that we feel like we’re holding séances on a daily basis,”
said Mircea Arsenie, an environmental science teacher at a Chicago public
high school, “because we’re sitting there going, ‘Is anybody there?!!?’”

Some students turn off their webcams for privacy — they don’t want people
peering at their family members or homes. Other students turn off webcams
to play games on their phones or text their friends.

But there’s also a deeper issue, said Amanda Kaupp, a psychology teacher at
a public high school in St. Louis. Students have developed passive
technology habits from constantly consuming entertainment like YouTube and
Netflix videos.

Now with remote learning, schools are asking students to instantly develop
active relationships with technology, she said, while many digital tools
are poorly designed, and students are distracted and stressed out by the
pandemic. Kaupp said that 70 percent of students in a recent live lesson
admitted they were at that moment also using their phones.

“I have long felt that the obsession with tech in the classroom was an
obsession with a false god,” Kaupp said, “and even more so now.”
Before we go …

   - Is government surveillance through your phone legal? The Department of
   Homeland Security’s internal watchdog said it would investigate the use
   of cellphone location data
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   to track Americans without a warrant, The Wall Street Journal reported. I
   wrote recently about government agencies buying commercially available
   data on our movements.
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   - Google vs. Googlers: The U.S. agency that enforces labor laws said
   that Google had wrongly fired two employees
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   who were involved in organizing company workers, my colleagues Kate Conger
   and Noam Scheiber reported. Noam and Kate have written before about the
   firings and cracks in Google’s culture of embracing dissent from its
   employees
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   .
   - It pitched public health instead of beaches: Guam’s tourism bureau
   organized a campaign to get more citizens to download an app that notifies
   people about potential coronavirus exposure, MIT Technology Review
   reported
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   And a flurry of WhatsApp messages, a TV telethon and other tactics were
   effective — to a point.

Hugs to this

Also from Natasha is this video of a teacher in Chicago and his wife who
dressed up for Halloween to visit students he hadn’t seen in person all
year.
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It’s wonderful. The sign he’s carrying reads: “Trick or Treat. Keep Six
Feet. You are the students we love to teach!”

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