In modern society, it is possible to go shopping, work and communicate via the Internet without face-to-face contact with one another. To what extent do you think this is a positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge...
and community partnerships. In her dual role as the venture catalyst manager, Cummings oversees the execution of RAIN’s Rural Venture Catalyst programs. She provides outreach and support to small and rural communities; she coaches and mentors regional entrepreneurs, builds strategic local partnerships...
How to Communicate with Farmers about Climate Change: Farmers' Perceptions and Adaptations to Increasingly Variable Weather Patterns in Maine (USA) While dealing with weather variability has always been a source of stress for farmers, a generally warmer, wetter climate with the potential for increasing...
rural communitiesThe number of ways that people communicate with their social networks has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. Traditionally, the local community was the basis for people's social interactions; most of people's closest friends resided locally and face-to-face communication ...
Mozilla’s cause is a noble one. As AI is integrated increasingly into our lives and the ways we communicate, it becomes more important that the tools we interact with sound like us. The technology could break down communication barriers and help convey information in a compelling w...
But Marron said the pushback from anti-wind groups was so strong and so polarizing that it took the topic off the table. “As an elected official, I felt constrained to not be able to communicate the benefits of it” because of the political reality, he said. ...
In incredible ways, the Internet has remade the way people communicate with one another. In centuries past, humans relied on word of mouth, handwritten letters, cave drawings, stone tablets and telegraph machines to convey messages and stories. Computers, satellites and cell phones have changed all...
Fixed wireless internetis useful in rural or underserved areas where traditional wired connections, such as DSL, cable, or fiber, are unavailable or cost-prohibitive to install. It can offer high-speed internet access with relatively low latency compared to satellite internet, because the data does...
Growth, Decline, Stability, and Disruption: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Well‐Being in Four Western Rural Communities* During the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists focused considerable attention on patterns of community change in boomtowns affected by large-scale energy re... M.D. Smith,...
Five steps could help to bring broadband and digital equity to every Black household in the United States—urban and rural—while bolstering efforts to create a more inclusive economy.(8 pages)The digital divide was first recognized in the mid-1990s.1 Three decades later, due in part to ...