Cleveland Launches Effort to Bring Internet to All Residents

Government Technology: Cleveland City Council launched an effort Monday to tackle the so-called “digital divide” in Cleveland – the gap in access to the Internet that has left as much as two-thirds of the Cleveland school children unable to go online in their homes.

Council President Kevin Kelley opened the first of what he expects will be many hearings hearing by noting that the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis laid bare the impact of the divide as children were forced to attend school remotely and people tried to do their jobs online.

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