WRITE A PARAGRAPGH ON "HOW INTERNET IS A GOOD SOURCE OF CONNECTING PEOPLE IN COVID - 19"
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Now more than ever, internet access is a lifeline — not a luxury. But it is a lifeline that over 3.5 billion people cannot access, writes Eleanor Sarpong.
For those fortunate enough to have meaningful connectivity, the internet provides a crucial link to information that helps us keep our families healthy and safe during this global health crisis. With social distancing measures the new norm across the globe, we are living our lives online. From online learning to working from home, live streamed religious services — even weddings and funerals — the web connects us to loved ones in this time of physical isolation.
But digital inequality deprives billions of people these critical connections. The coronavirus crisis has starkly exposed the shocking digital divide that persists around the world. Only 54% of the global population is connected today, with people in poorer regions far less likely to be online, along with women, elderly people and those living in remote and rural areas. Among those who are online, many are only connected via their place of work, school or in public access spaces such as libraries and cafes — meaning the closures of these public spaces will push even more people offline.
This inequality has real life consequences.
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advocacy organization that, in its words, promotes “the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.”
Katie Jordan, a resident of Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital neighborhood, joined the team in 2018 after serving as a policy and program manager at Next Century Cities where she worked with emerging tech issues. As Internet Society’s senior policy manager, Jordan develops and advocates for policy related to Internet access and security.
She talked to Technical.ly about what the Internet Society is focusing on now and if COVID-19 is going to change the way we use the Internet.