{"id":14817,"date":"2018-07-30T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=14817"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:54:09","slug":"digital-adoption-rise-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/digital-adoption-rise-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital adoption on the rise for rural America but still lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Nearly 63% of rural Americans have embraced digital, but not as fast as urban lifestyles.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The digital gap between rural and non-rural Americans has shortened, but there is still a giant breach between them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14819\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2017-09-28-a-las-18.26.26-e1506641220191.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14819\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2017-09-28-a-las-18.26.26-e1506641220191-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2017-09-28-a-las-18.26.26-e1506641220191-190x300.png 190w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2017-09-28-a-las-18.26.26-e1506641220191.png 352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are substantial differences in technology adoption within the older adult population. Image credit: Pew Research Center.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mobile technology and broadband connection has been adopted in rural America, embracing the change in digital has become palpable in such reasons.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/05\/19\/digital-gap-between-rural-and-nonrural-america-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center (PRC) survey conducted in late 2016<\/a>, 63% of the rural population in America accepted having a broadband internet connection at home, up over 35% from 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Referrin<em>g<\/em> to mobile technology as well as smartphone and tablet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/05\/19\/digital-gap-between-rural-and-nonrural-america-persists\/ft_17-05-18_ruraltechuse_broadband2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adoption and ownership<\/a>, as 70% of adults in the U.S. admit to have a laptop\/desktop at home, while 67% of them accepted to own a smartphone or mobile communication system, as the 29% of the total population of adults in the U.S. admit to possessing from laptop\/desktop, tablet, smartphone and home broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Never the less, ownership and adoption in digital is still at a 7-12% rate in comparison to urban and suburban citizens.<\/p>\n<p>As proved by the PRC investigation, 58% of adults who live in rural community\u2019s state they use the internet on a daily basis, while on urban areas, 80% of residents depend on internet daily for the fulfillment of their work tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite adoption of digital trends has expanded in rural areas, pace still strays far behind the one seen in urban and suburban lifestyle, as rural America spaces today face weak <a href=\"http:\/\/pewrsr.ch\/2qBuZY1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infrastructure and territories unable to adopt internet coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>In digital, broadband is important to the people<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/04\/10\/americans-have-mixed-views-on-policies-encouraging-broadband-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another PRC report<\/a> showed 9-in-10 Americans (49%) describe high-speed internet services as one essential, while 41% others say it is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 63% of rural Americans have embraced digital, but not  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[395,393,394,246,396],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation-business","tag-broadband","tag-digital","tag-digital-gap","tag-mobile","tag-prc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14826,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}