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Digital Equity and Climate Resilience @gretabyrum community tech ny digital equity lab, the new school reuters Climate change vs. internet infrastructure Overlap of Internet infrastructure and seawater in New York with average sea level
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Climate change vs. internet infrastructure Overlap of Internet infrastructure and seawater in New York with average sea level rise of 6 feet. From Durairajan & Barford, “Lights Out: Climate Change Risk to Internet Infrastructure,” 2018
cleveland, national digital inclusion alliance 2017
Cleveland, FHA 1940
One-third of households in the US do not have broadband
communities and communities of color ○ More expensive services ○ Less competition ○ Fragile infrastructure
○ Digital divide deepens other inequities ○ What happens when 2020 census moves online? ○ More vulnerable to climate change
the verge Copper DSL lines at Verizon switching station after Sandy, NYC
Red Hook, Brooklyn: Sandy, November 2012
the guardian
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Maria, September 2017
reuters
Houston: Harvey, August 2017
ars technica
Detroit Community Technology Project
Resilient Networks NYC, 2015
east harlem hunts point sheepshead bay far rockaway gowanus
Resilient Networks NYC, 2015
Building Portable Network Kits in Tennessee & Detroit, 2019
Resilient Communities NYC Digital Stewards 11/2018
Detroit EII Digital Stewards 11/2019)
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