From SmartCitiesWorld:
Boston is investing more than $12m to bring digital equity and inclusion to nearly 23,000 Boston public housing residents, library users, and school-age families.
The new funding will provide free access to wireless broadband service and devices to help public housing seniors and residents get online and will also provide Chromebook laptops to Boston Public School (BPS) students.
As part of this investment, the Boston Public Library (BPL) will receive $2.2m in Emergency Connectivity Funding (ECF) to acquire and distribute Chromebooks and home router wifi access for 3,000 BPL patrons in public housing.
In addition, the Boston Public Schools will receive nearly $10m for Chromebooks and to support connectivity for 20,000 Boston Public Schools’ families. This deployment will address additional needs following BPS’ initial distribution of 55,000 Chromebooks and 8,000 hotspots/home routers.
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