Lozoya: Brownsville being left behind due to digital divide
BROWNSVILLE, RGV – As he said he would, Mario Lozoya of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation brought up the subject of the digital divide when he appeared at a Wilson Center conference in Washington, D.C.
GBIC’s executive director was a panelist at the 6th Annual Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border Conference hosted by the Mexico Institute. The Mexico Institute is part of the Wilson Center.
The title of the panel discussion was: From Risk to Asset: Economic Development in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. The panel consisted of Lozoya, Jon Barela, CEO of The Borderplex Alliance and Federico Schaffler, director of the Texas Center for Border Economic Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. The moderator was Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Mexico Institute.
“Connectivity, in terms of broadband, 67 percent of the households in Brownsville are not connected,” Lozoya stated.
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