Neighbourhood association launches technology lending library in east Toronto.
Why It Matters
Technology lending libraries – where community members can borrow hardware and access the internet – are helping to overcome the digital divide. But they are a relatively new type of organization. How can their impact be measured in the short and long term, and how can they continue to advocate for funding?
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Growing up in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood, Abdirahman Mohamed remembers sharing a slow internet plan with his large family.
“I had ten members in my family, and we were sharing an internet plan where we had ten megabits-per-second,” he says.
When the family recently transitioned to a gigabit-per-second internet plan, the difference in speed was immediately noticeable.
The story is the same for many families in the neighbourho
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