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Pratt Library to provide Baltimoreans free internet and technology News Highlights: Pratt Library to provide Baltimoreans free internet and technology Heidi Daniel, president and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, announced Friday that Baltimore’s library system has partnered with Project Waves, the Digital Harbor Foundation, and the PNC Foundation to provide free in-home internet to 50 families in the Southeast from Baltimore. Image via Facebook Life. The Enoch Pratt Free Library provides free internet access to 50 households in southeast Baltimore as part of an ongoing effort to close the digital divide in Baltimore City. “We know that COVID-19 has exacerbated and exploited pre-existing inequalities, including the digital divide here in Baltimore City,” Mayor Brandon Scott said at a news conference on Friday. “In real time, we are seeing our world becoming more digital and virtual and we have left too many people behind.” ....
If you can stream Netflix without constant lagging, you have broadband, Kinnally said. Lawmakers and organizations should approach broadband as a utility, much like water and electricity, rather than as an amenity, said Andrew Coy, executive director of the Baltimore-based Digital Harbor Foundation. Coy said that a newly formed statewide office should measure broadband performance in different neighborhoods to combat the “very justified concern” of digital redlining –– a concern supported by data. Two-thirds of Marylanders without broadband access live in Baltimore or in a metro county, according to a study the Baltimore-based Abell Foundation published in January 2020. Coy told Capital News Service he understands that a statewide office created to expand broadband access won’t alleviate the state’s digital divide, but he said it’s a step in the right direction. ....
Maryland lawmakers look to plug in disconnected Marylanders Search By Jack Hogan COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 29, 2021) Maryland state lawmakers aim to amend inequities in broadband internet access that the coronavirus pandemic has accentuated. There s a great deal of urgency now, said Sen. Sarah Elfreth, D–Anne Arundel, the Senate sponsor for one of two related bills presented Tuesday to a House of Delegates committee. Broadband provides the high-speed internet access needed for online school, teleworking, telehealth appointments, access to court proceedings and, increasingly, social interaction. Kevin Kinnally, legislative director for the Maryland Association of Counties, said access is a statewide issue, affecting internet users in counties rural, urban and in-between. ....