[LM_NET] op/ed: Telecom reform needed to bridge Latino digital divide

[Andy Carvin <acarvin@EDC.ORG>]

Hi everyone,

Yesterday's Miami Herald featured an op/ed by Hector Flores of the 
League of United Latin America Citizens (LULAC) offering a Latino policy 
perspective on the digital divide. "In 2006, Congress will set out to 
rewrite the nation's telecommunications laws," Flores notes. "And if 
federal lawmakers get it right, Hispanic Americans, and consumers 
generally, could have much to celebrate. But if lawmakers misfire, the 
digital divide could explode into a digital abyss." Among his 
recommendations is to have more telecom companies contributing to the 
Universal Service Fund, source of the E-Rate funding used to subsidize 
school and library Internet access around the US.

I've written about the op/ed on my blog:

http://www.andycarvin.com

The full text of Flores' op/ed can be found here:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/13553457.htm


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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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