Hi everyone,
Yesterday's Miami Herald featured an op/ed by Hector Flores of the
League of United Latin America Citizens (LULAC) offering a Latino policy
perspective on the digital divide. "In 2006, Congress will set out to
rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws," Flores notes. "And if
federal lawmakers get it right, Hispanic Americans, and consumers
generally, could have much to celebrate. But if lawmakers misfire, the
digital divide could explode into a digital abyss." Among his
recommendations is to have more telecom companies contributing to the
Universal Service Fund, source of the E-Rate funding used to subsidize
school and library Internet access around the US.
I've written about the op/ed on my blog:
http://www.andycarvin.com
The full text of Flores' op/ed can be found here:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/13553457.htm
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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