Daily Digest 3/24/2020 (Peak Internet is the New Normal)
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Tue, 03/24/2020
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Rural communities' digital deserts cripple tele-education during coronavirus outbreak
Rural communities with poor to little broadband Internet access are stuck in digital deserts with no way to ride out the situation, according to digital accessibility activists. Tim Marema, the editor of The Daily Yonder, said the years of lagging behind broadband infrastructure construction in places like Appalachia make it tougher to come up with solutions to those barriers during the outbreak.