Oakland has accepted a $500,000 grant to help it provide high-speed internet access to underserved residential areas, city officials said.

The #OaklandUndivided campaign brought the internet to low-income households with school children and quickly closed the gap in access. But, some still may have only hotspots and households without children may not have access at all.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.