The FCC can improve digital literacy without investing significant funds...
The FCC can improve digital literacy without investing significant funds by adopting a two-pronged approach, Tom Sloan (R), a Kansas state representative, told the commission in a filing on “Digital Literacy Thoughts” (http://xrl.us/bnucfd). First, the FCC could require telecom companies…
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receiving Connect America Fund money to detail their prospective marketing to address the “digital illiteracy” of “hard to convince” prospective customers, he said. Second, in addition to supporting the cable industry’s “Connect to Compete” project, the FCC could facilitate development of a technology-neutral “Connect to Succeed” program that could be supported by wire, fiber, wireless and satellite providers, Sloan said. That would increase the number of potential “salespersons” reaching out to currently unconnected people, he said. Sloan is a member of the FCC’s Intergovernmental Advisory Committee, which provides guidance to the commission on issues of importance to state, local and tribal governments.