{"id":161822,"date":"2023-04-10T04:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/internet-access-must-become-a-human-right-or-we-risk-ever-widening-inequality-argues-researcher"},"modified":"2023-04-10T04:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:22:47","slug":"internet-access-must-become-a-human-right-or-we-risk-ever-widening-inequality-argues-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/internet-access-must-become-a-human-right-or-we-risk-ever-widening-inequality-argues-researcher","title":{"rendered":"Internet access must become a human right or we risk ever-widening inequality, argues researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/internet-access-must-become-a-human-right-or-we-risk-ever-widening-inequality-argues-researcher.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socioeconomic human rights such as education, health care, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic human right, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/developing+countries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">developing countries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/internet+access\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">internet access<\/a> can make the difference between people receiving an education, staying healthy, finding a home, and securing employment\u2014or not.<\/p>\n<p>Even if people have offline opportunities, such as accessing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/social+security\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social security<\/a> schemes or finding housing, they are at a comparative disadvantage to those with Internet access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socioeconomic human rights such as education, health care, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic human right, a new study reveals. Particularly in developing countries, internet access can make the difference between people receiving an education, staying healthy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1878,15,1495,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-employment","category-habitats","category-health","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}