by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Rovena is the Library Director for the Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town. Her library is well organized and loved. Thanks to a donor for our project the Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town now has four public access computers in the library. There were none before. Rovena...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Anita Mathis, is picture in front of two of the four desktops that were donated to her library, archives and cultural center. When I first called Anita about the possibility of working with her library she was so excited. She had received wonderful news that they...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Feb 13, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I first meet Pershing Yeahquo at a Tribal Health Conference. I was there to discover which Tribes did not have Tribal libraries in Oklahoma. He was there to find funding for his veterans. He is the Veteran’s Director and once he found out about our project, he now...
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 Emily Kissane | Feb 8, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
In the past few weeks I have hosted two digital inclusion webinars—one about the work of PCs for People and the other about building digital literacy partnerships among libraries, adult education and workforce. I thought I’d share a few thoughts and tips based my...