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‘Broadband access is a fundamental right’: Land O’Lakes launches boots-on-the-ground effort to bridge the digital divide
By Gill Hyslop
The ACC programme aims to foster a new generation of leaders to tackle their community's most pressing connectivity challenges. Pic: GettyImages/ipopba
One of America’s leading agribusiness and food companies is spearheading the American Connection Corps (ACC) programme, aimed at fostering a new generation of transformational leaders to tackle the most pressing connectivity challenges within their communities.
Millions of Americans in rural and under-resourced communities live without broadband internet access – today an essential tool in everyday life. Certainly, the pandemic has driven home how critical it is in order to stay connected not only with others, but also to have access to daily staples.