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Mention the impacts the project will have on tech-illiterate people like the elderly #1310

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Expand Up @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 to create an open-source, service-t

The partners in the Data Transfer Project believe portability and interoperability are central to innovation. Making it easier for individuals to choose among services facilitates competition, empowers individuals to try new services and enables them to choose the offering that best suits their needs.

We anticipate the Data Transfer Project solution will make a particularly big impact in global markets where downloading or uploading data is expensive and/or slow. The Data Transfer Project eliminates the need to download data at all. Instead, data is transferred directly between service providers.
We anticipate the Data Transfer Project solution will make a particularly big impact in global markets where downloading or uploading data is expensive and/or slow, and towards elderly and other tech-illiterate people who do not have the knowlege and/or patience to manually transfer their data. The Data Transfer Project eliminates the need to download data at all. Instead, data is transferred directly between service providers.


#### DTP is early-stage open source code that is built and maintained entirely by DTP community members.