The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will join...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will join the FCC and Connect2Compete to make digital literacy training available in public housing locations throughout the country, Chairman Julius Genachowski said Thursday. HUD will work with public housing agencies, industry…
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and tribal groups to raise awareness about the Connect2Compete digital literacy program, Genachowski said. Assisted by Best Buy’s “Geek Squads,” the groups will initially roll out their training programs in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, and St. Paul, Minn., an FCC spokesman said. Best Buy is among the companies that’s been working with the C2C program of cable ISPs and other companies to provide inexpensive broadband service to poor households (CD Aug 8 p13). The Internet is the platform for education, healthcare and public safety, and “it’s just not acceptable to think of this platform as anything other than a universal service” that’s available to everyone in the country, Genachowski said. “If you have connectivity but you don’t know how to use the programs and the software, it doesn’t really help,” he said. “I am in love with Connect2Compete,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. “The most important predictor” of a child’s success in life is their ZIP code, he said. “That is simply wrong in the United States today,” he said. “That’s what this partnership is about."