I conducted a comparative analysis of a large sample of NEO people's perceptions about the digital divide and found all respondents believe we must get everyone in NEO across the divide to make our economy in NEO effective, yet many of the people who are already across the divide in NEO don't see this as their problem - many see it as a poverty problem the affluent don't care about. Unfortunately, to make matters worse, for the past many years people have believed OneCleveland is addressing this issue, when that is not at all what they do or intend to do - they sell big-bandwidth to non-profits at reduced non-profit rates. So, we live in a community that knows we have a problem and it knows it is important to solve that but it believes it is poor people's problem and that OneCleveland is around to solve it.

So let's start solving the problem with a reality check by understanding the digital divide is the problem of everyone in the region, hurting the economy for everyone, and it is not being addressed in a comprehensive social way by anyone but a few friends of realneo. That said, who else wants to be a friend of real NEO - contact Phillip Williams at phillipw [at] inbox [dot] com

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