He's Holy I'm Knott Welcomes Waves of positive energy from Samantha Musgrave and Devin Weaver of Project Waves
Reverand Al and I have been busy, AIR LLC and Beloved Community Services are about as busy as they have ever been and before we get even busier. So its time to get busy with a series of new Podcasts to be released over the next two months. We've been back in the Advanced Indoor Resources Poast Studio with a bunch of exciting new guests.
So get ready for weekly Posts as the next two months are filled with amazing guests just like Samantha Musgrove and Devin Weaver. These two young hungry individuals are making Waves bringing free internet to parts of Baltimore that could easily be considered Internet Deserts.
More than 96,000 homes in Baltimore City lack internet home service. This has broad implications for these residents who lack this service. How about this fact, at the start of the pandemic more than 24,000 students couldn't get online to continue their educations while they spent much of the Spring at home. That statistic in and of itself is why we are promoting this work. You might well imagine where we do and don't have service throughtout the City, and if you guessed the same neighborhoods that were redlined over 100 years ago you guessed right.
Project Waves was founded in 2018 and through the design and creation of the Waves Point to Multipoint wireless network, their team has connected over 300 households to free high speed internet service. Baltimore City residents face one of the highest rates of Digital Disconnectivity in the United States. As you might imagine a lack of access, affordability and digital literacy exacerbate disparities in Education, healthcare access, stable housing and more.
Unlike traditional Internet Servcie Providers Project Waves is a non profit who's priority is ensuring members of their network have relaible high speed internet service regardless of socioeconomic status.
Samantha and Devin bring so much energy and knowledge to this effort and they are a dynamic duo that are getitng the job done despite a lack of help and urgency from the City, who ultimately controls their destiny. Listen in to this Podcast, there's so much to learn and understand about the heavy lifting that the people at Project Waves have undertaken. Thanks to Sam and Devin your energy and enthusiam for providing what the UN has declared a human right, Internet service for all.
Thanks for all you are doing to close the gap.