by Nicole Umayam | Jan 12, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
With our community partners at Arizona Students Recycling Used Technology (AZStRUT), we were able to host a Techie Camp at the San Xavier Education Center Library in Tucson, Arizona. The Techie Camp is a hands-on introductory workshop to computer hardware for...
by Nicole Umayam | Jan 2, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
First, let’s just take a moment to appreciate how incredible public libraries are. Library services are driven by the needs of the community, and this extends well beyond lending books. They can lend all sorts of non-traditional items, from power tools and telescopes...
by Nicole Umayam | Dec 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
So far, we’ve facilitated three of the six broadband toolkit site assessments in Arizona as part of Internet2’s “Toward Gigabit Libraries” pilot program (I wrote about the pilot program in an earlier post). The first two were facilitated by James Werle of Internet2...
by Nicole Umayam | Nov 14, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
TV White Space (TVWS) refers to the unused, license-free radio frequencies in the TV broadcast bands. By deploying TVWS, libraries can provide additional wifi access in places like parks, shelters, community centers, and anywhere else the community may benefit from...
by Nicole Umayam | Nov 14, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Sun Corridor Network is Arizona’s research and education network, which provides high-speed (100 Gbps) connectivity and access to a number of partners. This service is available through Sun Corridor’s connection to Internet2. On November 8, 2017, three colleagues from...