Allocate some Universal Service funds for challenge grants to encourage better use of grants already used for Internet access in schools and libraries.

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To close the gap, the report suggests that policy-makers work to subsidize Internet access in schools, libraries and workplaces since many minorities access the Internet outside their homes.

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The runner up award went to Zaya, led by Neil DSouza, which has developed an educational wifi router that operates for ten hours on batteries and is loaded with content for schools in the developing world where power and internet access are spotty.

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More youngsters than ever before have internet access and the ratio of pupils to computers is coming down in both primary and secondary schools.

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As an example of this collaboration, the City of Seattle has proposed implementation of the Great Student Initiative, an effort to form new partnerships with information, communication and technology companies including Microsoft, Comcast, One Economy and lenders to provide low-cost, high-speed Internet access, computer, software and services for low-income students in the Seattle Public Schools.

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Another technological perk many schools are now offering is access to TV, movies and music over the Internet connections on campus and in dorms.

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Proposals put forward by the Devizes MP include age ratings for sexually provocative music videos, restrictions on access to so-called "lads' mags", labelling on airbrushed photos in magazines and internet safety classes in schools.

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