After a long wait of the community leaders, they were excited as they saw a potentially inspiring force with last year’s promise of Google to provide schools, libraries, homes and other public organization in this city with the fastest Internet connection. They expected an inducement for developers to create in the communities and the new educational probability for their youth. Google declared a procedure whichever only those places where ample residents pre-registered and a $10 payment deposit would acquire the service Google Fiber. Almost white community was registered than black society and the cutoff of the registration was Sunday midnight.
Some concerns might deepen, as the vision of some black community in the city could not acquire access to the technology that intensified the long ethnic isolation. The executive director of the neighborhood council in Ivanhoe, Margaret May said that this is just an instance of individual that acquire minimum income and sometimes gets below average educated people that was being left out. In 2009, Ivanhoe is one of the places where the insufficiency rate was about 46 percent. Kansas City has been separated by racial division that still existing, most of the blacks in the city were constrained to the people in the east.
Micah Kubic together with the non-profit Greater Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation said that the outcome of both unconcealed and uncommunicative efforts to keep the black community out of housing areas and schools of the white people and some historical patterns of population development and decisions. Between the blacks and the whites are the dividing lines and it is the Troost Avenue. Approximated three out of four people reside in the east of the Troost Avenue is black, it is based on the analysis report of the Census in 2012 by a sociology professor at Queens College in New York City, Andrew Beveridge.
They did not exploit west of Troost because of the fear of harassment coming from the police said by one of the black residents. Nowadays, some people were convincing residents on the importance of Internet access, it may help them to apply for jobs, do some research and be knowledgeable in the government services. But apparently, 46 percent of the blacks do not have and use Internet connections and 25 percent of homes in the Kansas City do not have broadband. The qualified people will acquire Internet services with speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. Aside from that, Google offers a television service together with Internet for about $120 a month.
For free, a gigabit connection might get by the libraries, hospital, schools and other society in the place. Google plan to announce the qualified people on Monday, however, the unqualified individuals will still get a chance in the future. The community groups in Kansan will also get an assistance to advocate digital knowledge. However, some people were worried as when the service was not available in their place, the schools and hospitals might fall apart and companies that depend on the connection might not succeed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/us/in-one-city-signing-up-for-internet-becomes-a-civic-cause.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us
http://www.silobreaker.com/in-one-city-signing-up-for-internet-becomes-a-civic-cause-5_2265966153425748001
http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/10/In_One_City_Signing_Up_for_Internet_Becomes_a_Civic_Cause/
