Bridging the Digital Divide: Providing Offline Internet Access to the Unconnected
By leveraging offline storage solutions, we’re providing billions with access to essential educational content and information helping bridge the connectivity gap until broadband improves.
Offline Internet
Nearly 4 billion people around the world lack reliable internet access. The internet adoption rate is growing very slowly and faces many political and economic obstacles. Internet is spreading. Just not fast enough.
Internet access is a must for education, discovery, and communication. Yet in the US, and around the world, billions of people lack access to reliable internet. As the world rapidly approaches a new, digital economiy, half of the planet stands to be left out of it. We need a solution fast, and we need to change our approach.
Storage is a surprisingly powerful solution to the internet connectivity challenge. The average hard drive can fit millions of web pages. By harnessing the ridiculously cheap cost of storage, we can make efficient use of the limited connectivity that people have, and we enable them to access life changing content regardless of whether they have an internet connection.
People around the world have no internet access
American school children lack adequate internet or devices at home
The cost of a thumb drive that can fit more content that you can consume in a lifetime
“You can deliver most of the value of a computer without a data plan”
Our projects
We invest in and support companies and organizations that work on the issue of connectivity.
Endless Access is dedicated to tackling the digital divide. Providing our operating system for free makes technology more affordable for everyone, by lowering the cost of computer setup and maintenance. It’s also a great choice for re-purposing existing hardware for free.
We’re proud to support these organizations
Our vision: The whole world, empowered.
We believe youth should shape technology, not be shaped by it. We imagine a world where every child is a creator. A world where kids are pulled not just into playing games, but into building them — and in the process, become coders, designers, storytellers, and changemakers.
What would the world look like if every teen grew up with the tools to challenge the injustices of the modern world? What if the next generation could not just use technology, but use it to rebuild what’s broken?
If we succeed, we’ll see the answer in the world around us.
Together, We’re Making a Difference
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