“I just felt my heart break for what we were finally, finally in this country, going to address, the digital divide,” said Angela Siefer, executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, a nonprofit that was awarded — but has not received — a $25.7 million grant to work with groups across the country to help provide access to technology. “In the United States we do not have a consistent source of funding to help individuals get online, understand how to be safe online and how to use that technology to accomplish all the things that are required now as part of life that are online,” said Siefer of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance. You have to have the internet and you have to know how to use the technology just to survive, let alone to thrive today.”
Author: Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press, Claire Rush, Associated Press
Published at: 2025-05-25 22:06:55
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