by Abi Waldrupe | Apr 19, 2022 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports, Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator, National Digital Navigator Corps
A couple weeks ago, Angela Siefer, NDIA’s executive director, and I found ourselves with hands full of sticky notes in a “zombie shelter” constructed of shipping containers on a ranch in the southern California desert. Handwritten on each sticky note was one barrier...
by Kristi Zappie-Ferradino | Sep 7, 2021 | Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
Salt Lake City Public Library Model Offers New Guidance DOWNLOAD THE TOOLKIT Last fall, when NDIA launched our Digital Navigator training, Navigators was a nascent program with the potential to change the lives of community members in a transformative way. With...
by Kristi Zappie-Ferradino | Mar 1, 2021 | Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
In the Fall of 2020 NDIA partnered with the Salt Lake City Public Library and Urban Libraries Council to bridge the Digital Divide in Salt Lake City through the launch of a Digital Navigators pilot project. To prepare for direct service in December 2020, program...
by Angela Siefer | Aug 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
The Digital Navigator Model Page explains the core elements of the model, hosts sample graphics, worksheets, instructions and assessments, and recognizes everyone in the Digital Navigators Working Group. Repeated thanks to our Digital Navigators Working Group. Their...
by Angela Siefer | Jun 3, 2020 | Digital Inclusion News, Digital Navigator
Through an NDIA Working Group of digital inclusion practitioners revising their work to be socially distant and/or remote, NDIA has created a baseline job description for a Digital Navigator. In the great tradition of “surfing the internet as we build the internet”,...