Why Universal Broadband Access Is More Important Than Ever

That universal broadband access is a goal worth pursuing has become conventional wisdom. The risk of being elevated to conventional wisdom is that the root arguments bury themselves so deeply that alternate notions sprout and threaten them. While broadband access touches social, cultural, political, health-related and even spiritual elements of modern life, let’s focus on two: education and economics. That’s where the digital divide can do the most damage. Anyone who has hopped on to YouTube for an appliance repair or software how-to knows the value of instructional show-and-tell. That extends to formal education. In short, broadband access at school and at home is crucial to ensuring educational equity.

[Giuseppe Incitti is the CEO of Sitetracker.]