by Jeff Garcie | Jan 12, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
My friend Alvin, who knows me from my digital inclusion work in the village of Port Lions, asked me what I thought was the best choice for an Internet plan for his family. The list of plans he showed me on his iPhone was heart breaking. The village had had high hopes...
by Emily Kissane | Jan 5, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Minnesota has been working on digital inclusion at the state and community levels for quite a while, yet, as a recent article pointed out, 10-20% of Minnesotans still are underserved by broadband access. The article certainly is worth a thorough read, but I wanted to...
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 Sandy Tharp-Thee | Dec 14, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Because someone cared City of Boley was first brought to my attention back in February of this year. The City of Boley had not had access to a library and computers for over a decade. Today thanks to a donor they have a working media center with four desktops....
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...
