{"id":16201,"date":"2024-10-14T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/i-felt-i-had-no-choice-why-deborah-did-her-schoolwork-using-the-shopping-centre-wifi\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:37:52","slug":"i-felt-i-had-no-choice-why-deborah-did-her-schoolwork-using-the-shopping-centre-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/i-felt-i-had-no-choice-why-deborah-did-her-schoolwork-using-the-shopping-centre-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt I had no choice\u2019: why Deborah did her schoolwork using the shopping centre wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in four Australians don\u2019t have access to essential technology. The Smith Family says a national device bank could help close the gap<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Westfield shopping centre isn\u2019t an obvious place to get homework done. But for Deborah Botende, it was one of her only options.<\/p>\n<p>Botende grew up in foster care in Brisbane and had no internet access at home. Throughout high school, she\u2019d stay back after her retail shift to use the shopping centre\u2019s wifi \u2013 completing her schoolwork on a secondhand laptop.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/oct\/15\/technology-access-the-smith-family-national-device-bank-deborah-schoolwork-shopping-centre-wifi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e2a6bb269984f01a74a0f929372d3e06c152a59\/0_56_7678_4607\/master\/7678.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=10866334871a49a14b619b168349ce5f\" title=\"\u2018I felt I had no choice\u2019: why Deborah did her schoolwork using the shopping centre wifi\" \/>One in four Australians don\u2019t have access to essential technology. The Smith Family says a national device bank could help close the gap<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>A Westfield shopping centre isn\u2019t an obvious place to get homework done. But for Deborah Botende, it was one of her only options.<br \/>\nBotende grew up in foster care in Brisbane and had no internet access at home. Throughout high school, she\u2019d stay back after her retail shift to use the shopping centre\u2019s wifi \u2013 completing her schoolwork on a secondhand laptop.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in four Australians don\u2019t have access to essential technology. The Smith Family says a national device bank could help close the gap Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Westfield shopping centre isn\u2019t an obvious place to get homework done. But for Deborah Botende, it was one of her &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/i-felt-i-had-no-choice-why-deborah-did-her-schoolwork-using-the-shopping-centre-wifi\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I felt I had no choice\u2019: why Deborah did her schoolwork using the shopping centre wifi<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}