Christian Carlos. Pen 360 Press [P360P].
The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease COVID-19 - first recorded, according to scientific research, in the central region of Wuhan, China - forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Since then, governments from different parts of the world have established new health security measures that, to date, have changed people's routines; in addition to biosecurity measures, people were urged to stay at home and work remotely; that is, to assume a teleworking and online classes scheme.
However, it was not until the start of the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic that the lack of access to the Internet and information and communication technologies increased because, now, most families had to move, in such a short time, their lifestyles to the comfort of their homes.
The quarantine has brought to light the first problems regarding digital parity; for example, how many people in a household can be connected to the Internet at the same time, how many devices capable of connecting to the Internet exist in a household, and how many of them are capable of efficiently performing tasks that were previously performed in structured work settings, such as an office, or school classrooms.
For this reason, Ethnic Media Services, held an information session to address current problems and seek possible solutions to the growing digital divide.
Angela Siefer, executive director of the National Alliance for Digital Inclusion, said the new policies are intended to