By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix
One night Darcel Jackson was lying in bed at a homeless shelter, wondering what local tech companies could do for the poor. How could they help people like him get jobs and find housing? Then it hit him — an idea so simple and cheap you probably assumed someone had already done it years ago. Darcel thought tech companies could get Wi-Fi for people in homeless shelters.
Jackson was staying at Next Door, a shelter in the middle of San Francisco. Not only was there no Wi-Fi, there weren’t even computers. Like many homeless shelters in the state and country, it was a total Internet dead-zone.
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