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 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 Disproportionately low income ● communities and communities of color More expensive services ○ Less competition ○ Fragile infrastructure ○ Circle of digital inequality ● Digital divide deepens other inequities ○ What happens when 2020 census ○ the verge moves online? Copper DSL lines at Verizon switching More vulnerable to climate change ○ 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
Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2012
Digital Stewardship
Teaching Community Technology Detroit Community Technology Project
Resilient Networks NYC, 2015
Resilient Networks east NYC, 2015 harlem hunts point far sheepshead rockaway bay gowanus
PNK
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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