Saturday, May 30, 2015
Mobile Wi-Fi hotspots
I follow the Kansas City Public Library on twitter. They had a tweet that linked to this article, which discusses how four Kansas City groups, including the Kansas City Public Library, are partnering to bring Internet access to low-income families in the Kansas City area. The library's deputy director applied for a grant to provide families with mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. A quote in the article from this deputy director says "We check out books. We check out everything else. Why not the Internet?" I think it's great that these groups are partnering to provide these services to families that otherwise could not afford it.
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Great link Mary! Considering how important internet access is to do everything from homework to job searching to communication it would be very difficult indeed not to be able to access it. What a good use of resources and worthy goal. It's totally a project to keep an eye on to see if it can be replicated.
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