Digital Inclusion

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Digital Inclusion is an attempt to include all humans into the benefits of an emerging Digital Ecosystem.

Problems

• Most technology innovators follow the Pareto Principle that, among many other consequences, says that 80% of the gain comes from 20% of the effort. In other words innovators are not interested in the 20% of the market that could consume 80% of the effort. This is not an acceptable solution for any credential of any sort that is needed to access the rights an privileges that every living person deserves from their government.

  At the turn of the Twentieth Century Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, living as a wealthy recluse in Switzerland, was at work on some of the earliest statistical research into what we now call income inequality. By his count, twenty per cent of the population of Italy owned about eighty per cent of the land. He found a similar ratio in another, more eccentric area: twenty per cent of the pea pods in his garden yielded eighty per cent of the peas. Pareto took to describing these imbalances as a "natural law," known as the 80/20 rule." Pareto wanted a pithy term for his s he concept, but "ruling class" was out-it and had been popularized by his arch-rival, the scholar Gaetano Mosca. Instead, he adopted élite, a French word derived from the Latin eligere, which means "to choose." Pareto intended it to be neither a pejorative nor a compliment; he believed that there were élite scholars, er élite shoe, and élite thieves. Under capitalism, they would tend to at be plutocrats; under socialism, they would be bureaucrats.

Solutions

• HHS Secretary Becerra Announces Michigan as First State to Implement Kinship Care Rule On Thursday, March 28, 2024, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra announces approval for Michigan to become the first state to implement separate licensing standards for kin caregivers.
• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Two Head Start Changes to Serve More Children in Tribal Communities and Children of Agricultural Workers On March 23, 2024, President Biden signed into law provisions giving Head Start programs additional flexibility to serve children in Tribal communities and children of farmworkers. Both of these new provisions ensure Head Start programs can more effectively serve the families for whom they were designed. First, Tribally run Head Start programs will be able to prioritize enrolling children from the Tribe, or who live with Tribal members, regardless of family income. This change will allow Tribal Head Start Programs—which are a precious source of child care and Native language preservation in hundreds of Native communities—to grow to meet the existing demand in their communities without losing federal funding eligibility. In addition, any child who has at least one family member primarily engaged in agricultural employment is now eligible for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start.