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 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 29, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Last week we had the first meeting of our Digital Inclusion Working Group, comprised of people in the E-Rate and Library Development divisions of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. One of the broader goals of the Digital Inclusion Corps is to...
by Nicole Umayam | Jan 26, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Although the Digital Inclusion Corps pilot project comes to a close next month, my digital inclusion activities with the Arizona State Library will continue. We can credit NDIA’s vision and execution of this pilot project to be the change agent for increased action in...