BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5ab65c16-b41a-4b5d-9def-b5408e21b390.198520@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190603T203721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T203721Z LOCATION:Plaster Student Union\, Robert W. Ballroom West SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference - Eliminating digital deserts: Is it ach ievable? DESCRIPTION:Panel Session - Eliminating digital deserts: Is it achievable? \n\n\nAccess to the internet enables one to live fully in the modern worl d. Yet\, the Federal Communications Commission’s most recent report indic ates that there are still 34 million Americans without access to high-spe ed internet services. To put it in perspective\, that is 10 percent of th e entire population of the U.S. How do we ensure that every American citi zen and every school have equal access to the advantages of a high-speed digital world? Should this be a right of every U.S. citizen like access t o fresh water\, medical care and education? What happens to those who hav e no access to this service? The elderly? The disabled? The poor? Those i n rural America? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><a href="https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference/schedule/608/el iminating-digital-deserts-is-it-achievable">Panel Session - Eliminating d igital deserts: Is it achievable?</a></p>\n<p>Access to the internet enab les one to live fully in the modern world.&nbsp\;Yet\, the Federal Commun ications Commission’s most recent report indicates that there are still 3 4 million Americans without access to high-speed internet services. To pu t it in perspective\, that is 10 percent of the entire population of the U.S. How do we ensure that every American citizen and every school have e qual access to the advantages of a high-speed digital world? Should this be a right of every U.S. citizen like access to fresh water\, medical car e and education? What happens to those who have no access to this service ? The elderly? The disabled? The poor? Those in rural America?</p></body> </html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191003T101500 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR