Opportunity in the AI era: Closing the technology gaps
summary
Argues there are two specific barriers: the digital skills gap and the broadband gap, with concrete numbers — King County unemployment 3.4% versus Ferry County 16.6%, only 7,665 of 42,000 high schools offer AP Computer Science, women earn two thirds the CS degrees they did in 2003, underrepresented minorities are 20% of AP CS while 30% of the population. Claims 25 million Americans lack broadband (19 million rural), finds a 90% correlation between low broadband and high unemployment, and pushes Microsoft’s Airband initiative plus TV white space pilots and partnerships with Packer land broadband and declaration networks to reach millions by 2022.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:07Digital Skills Gap
- 2:43Gender Divide
- 4:07Increasing the Gender Divide
- 7:34The Broadband Gap
- 10:21Air Band Initiative
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