{"id":846,"date":"2016-04-18T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=846"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:10:36","slug":"non-profits-and-the-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/04\/18\/non-profits-and-the-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Profits and the Digital Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Standard<\/a> website has an interesting article on <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/how-non-profits-help-close-the-digital-divide-58c551d4d7e0#.tynx5k1ai\" target=\"_blank\">how non-profits help close the digital divide<\/a>, the gap between those who have access to high-speed internet services, and those who don&#8217;t. The author notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he digital divide isn\u2019t just about potential adopters. There are also barriers on the supply side that non-profits try to bust through, and most of them are mental. One problem is that businesses aren\u2019t entirely aware of the financial incentives that come with getting more people online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an important reminder, as most of the strategies I&#8217;m familiar focus on consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Standard website has an interesting article on how non-profits help close the digital divide, the gap between those who have access to high-speed internet services, and those who don&#8217;t. The author notes: [T]he digital divide isn\u2019t just about potential adopters. There are also barriers on the supply side that non-profits try to bust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}