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Closing Digital Divide Requires Better Persuasion, Say Downes, Levin

Closing the digital divide should move beyond talk of infrastructure to finding out why so many passed by broadband don't adopt it, said an opinion in Friday's Washington Post by Brookings Institution's Blair Levin and Larry Downes of Georgetown University's…

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Center for Business and Public Policy. Those without home internet are "predominantly poorer, older and less educated Americans," demographics found more often in cities than rural areas, they said. Convincing those without broadband it’s relevant is the key challenge, they said.