Get hooked up at Digital Inclusion Day Resource Fair

08/12/15 MARLON SORTO / AHORA SI Staff members of Austin Free-Net held a computer training with low-income residents in Lakeside Apartments, on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Austin Free-Net is one of many local organizations and agencies that work to close the digital gap which affects specially to Latinos and African Americans. A study commissioned by the city of Austin this year revealed that over 50,000 Austeniteís do not use the Internet, which may translate into lost opportunities for education, social and health services, and local participation. The relatively few people in the sample (8%, or 153) who do not use the Internet tend to be older, less well educated, and somewhat more female. There are higher percentages of Hispanics (53.6%) and White non-Hispanics (26%) than other racial/ethnic groups who are not using the Internet. The 8% represents about 52,805 people within Austinís adult population (estimated by the 2012 American Community Survey to be 660,065).