Comcast Takes Steps to Closing the Digital Divide With Internet Essentials Program
Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new program that may help close the digital divide gap even more. They plan to offer discounted internet service and computers to low-income families with a program called Internet Essentials. The program is set to provide low-cost access to the internet and affordable computers as well as [...]
Read MoreIs the Digital Divide Still Talking About Access or Digital Literacy?
The term “digital divide” began surrounding the issue of access to technology resources. The digital divide was considered to be the gap between the people who had access to the internet and the people who didn’t. Through past studies, it was deemed that African Americans were the group who didn’t. Today, that definition seems contradictory [...]
Read MoreAs Unemployment Rises for African Americans, Digital Literacy Could be the Solution, Part II
In a recent post I talked about the continued disproportionately high unemployment rates among African Americans, and why we must develop innovative solutions now to counteract those trends. I argued primarily that there is an opportunity to train the unemployed to fill the jobs technology companies, hungry for talent, are longing to fill. But what [...]
Read MoreAs Unemployment Rises for African Americans, Digital Literacy Could Be The Solution
Unemployment rates continue to remain high among African Americans. The issue is that these are more than statistics, they represent people with lives and families and people like you and me. The other problem is that mainstream society will not come up with solutions to solve this problem in the short term so we need [...]
Read MoreMore Than Content …
Back in the days of Web 1.0, every site wanted its users to create a unique profile. The thought was that the user would contribute to the community, spend the bulk of their online time on the site, and generate tons of page views & ad impressions by doing so. They might even provide valuable [...]
Read MoreFollowing Obama’s Lead, Digital Elders Lead Us into the Future
Noting that the future of the world will be digital, President Obama recently announced his commitment to increasing cyber security awareness as well as digital literacy. The good folks at Message Media Ed. are taking the initiative with the creation of the Digital Elder program.
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