{"id":3020,"date":"2022-01-25T17:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:32:21","slug":"overcoming-digital-deserts-the-birth-of-bronx-digital-equity-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/overcoming-digital-deserts-the-birth-of-bronx-digital-equity-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Digital Deserts: The Birth of Bronx Digital Equity Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the Bronx was known to be home to some of New York City\u2019s largest digital deserts, neighborhoods where many people do not have internet access at home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Bronx Community Foundation<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/digital-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u><strong>reports<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The Bronx has the lowest broadband adoption rates of any borough and the disparities are even more pronounced at the neighborhood level, with 38% of The Bronx not having access to broadband.<\/li><li>Nearly 1 in 5 teens cannot finish their homework because of the digital divide.<\/li><li>Roughly one-third of households with children ages 6-17 and whose annual income falls below $30,000 a year do not have a high-speed Internet connection at home.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These already-significant problems were amplified during the early days of the pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/news\/overcoming-digital-deserts-the-birth-of-bronx-digital-equity-coalition\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/news\/overcoming-digital-deserts-the-birth-of-bronx-digital-equity-coalition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the Bronx was known to be home to some of New York City\u2019s largest digital deserts, neighborhoods where many people do not have internet access at home.&nbsp; As the Bronx Community Foundation&nbsp;reports:&nbsp; The Bronx has the lowest broadband adoption rates of any borough and the disparities are even more pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebronx.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}