by Nicole Umayam | Feb 14, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Note: This blog post is a modified excerpt from the Final Report. I’d like to spend my last blog post celebrating the Library Development team at the Arizona State Library. From the outset, the Library Development team immediately rose to the challenge of digital...
by Nicole Umayam | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
As we’re at the buzzer with our final reporting for this project, I wanted to share a couple of the thoughts I’ve had about doing this work. Intense engagement with digital inclusion for the past year has been transformative on many levels and I’m grateful to have...
by Nicole Umayam | Feb 9, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
In areas of the world where there is no broadband infrastructure whatsoever, how can people access online resources or engage with digital tools? I’ve been learning about offline internet solutions, such as Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders)’s...
by Nicole Umayam | Feb 7, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I’m happy to say that the momentum for digital inclusion work at the Arizona State Library will continue after the NDIA Digital Inclusion Corps pilot ends this month. This week we had the second Digital Inclusion Working Group meeting. Working group is an apt name as...
by Nicole Umayam | Jan 30, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I had the pleasure of attending the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) webinar “Libraries as Digital Inclusion Champions” on Thursday, January 25. Libraries have long been local champions of digital inclusion in their communities, and I loved...
