November 20, 2020

PuebloConnect Brings Internet Access to Indigenous Communities

Author: The Bottom Line -

Zoha Malik
Staff Writer
Dr. Elizabeth Belding, a computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), was recently awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to further develop Internet access solutions within rural Native American communities alongside the PuebloConnect team.
PuebloConnect is a research group that focuses on improving Internet availability rates by encouraging consistent digital content creation in economically marginalized communities. Professor Belding is the pr