The Technology Policy Is Not Separated From This

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You have to be constantly looking for a job, skilling up and training. There is no outside. It is no break. This even filters down into education, where education starts increasingly to be more and more about work force readiness. So the technology policy is not separate from this. It is an integral part of this. And it is through that opportunity presented by the internet that the Obama administration is able to say, every one has access to global labor markets.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.

Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.

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