Collaborative effort needed to bridge the digital divide

Technical stakeholders, including ISPs, major content providers, and application developers like Netflix, YouTube, and Facebook, must lend a hand to connect remote communities.

If the digital divide is to be successfully bridged, content providers and application developers must therefore deliver content to remote communities differently than they do elsewhere, write Catherine Rosenberg and Andrew Lappalainen.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY ANDREW LAPPALAINEN, CATHERINE ROSENBERG

February 17, 2021

Many Canadians in remote northern communities cannot depend on the internet for essential tasks for school or work, or for leisure activities like entertainment or social media. There is, in short, a deep digital divide between remote communities and the rest of the country. Historically, internet ...

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