digital divide
AA Edit | 5G-6G must cut digital divide
Reports have shown that the education of a large number of children suffered irreparably owing to their inability to access online classes
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Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids
The pandemic has once again sledgehammered the fact that in digital India, everyone is not equal
Online classes only for the privileged, millions of others miss out on education
Many thousands of families do not have smartphones or computers for their children to attend online classes.
Even before virus, communities in US feel loss of newspapers
Digital outlets also have limitations, since many people in poor and rural areas are unable to count on reliable high-speed Internet
Will someone help them out? Without smartphones, these poor students are missing online classes
No one in the families of these seven students, and others like them, owns or can afford a smartphone.
COVID turns back time to when only the privileged could get an education
When 56 per cent of children have no digital access, online education is exclusionary.