Digital for All: Here’s The Why

Schools are closed. UNESCO estimates 91% of the world’s students are impacted and 192 country-wide closures are in place.

LA Unified, the second largest school district in the country, announced closure through summer with more than million children “distance learning”. 15,000 LAUSD high school students had no online contact in the first two weeks that schools were closed while one in six California school-age children lacks access to the internet at home.

Healthcare providers are swamped, office visits are impossible, and virtual care is coming via telehealth – but obstacles to implementation of telehealth may exist.

Vulnerable populations such as the elderly are 21% less likely to have internet access and almost 50% less likely to conduct videocalls; the poor are 34% less likely to communicate with doctors online.

The first 12 of St. Louis' Covid-19 deaths were African Americans and delays in educating the city's Black community about coronavirus risks have cost lives.