{"id":898,"date":"2025-01-13T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:00:06","slug":"why-the-digital-divide-persists-within-indigenous-communities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/why-the-digital-divide-persists-within-indigenous-communities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the &#039;digital divide&#039; persists within Indigenous communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/why-the-digital-divide-persists-within-indigenous-communitie_gxvn.640.jpg\">Billions have gone to connecting rural tribal lands with reliable online access, but complicated infrastructure and longstanding skepticism slow the connection.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, amid a global pandemic that highlighted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2021\/01\/covid-digital-divide-learning-education\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staggering digital divide among Americans<\/a>, the federal government pledged to do something. <\/p>\n<p>Its solution? Some promising tech subsidies and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2020\/06\/24\/trump-administration-invests-86-million-rural-broadband-service-eight-states\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wave of funding for internet access initiatives<\/a>, specifically high speed broadband. This money included the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions have gone to connecting rural tribal lands with reliable online access, but complicated infrastructure and longstanding skepticism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}