Jason deBruyn reports on the digital divide that persits in North Carolina. Some 380,000 North Carolina students don't have access to the internet at home. And more than half a million in this state don't have a home computer, according to data provided by the Associated Press.
In a nondescript office park in south Durham, volunteers dug through a giant box of donated electronics. This particular box held hundreds of power cords for Apple iMacs, Lenovo ThinkPads and more. Surrounding that box were others with keyboards, monitors and other accessories.
It's not glamorous work, said Michael Abensour, executive director of the Kramden Institute, but it's necessary. Kramden is a nonprofit that fights to bridge the digital divide. It collects donated computer equipment, refurbishes it, and then gives it away – mostly to students who don't have access to a computer at home.
