by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 14, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
It is time to start thinking about e-rate now. Discounts are based on the percentage of how many children attending school in your district that qualify for free or reduced lunches. The discount can be from 20% to 90%. The discount is applied to the internet used...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 13, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I recently attended an Oklahoma Health Literacy conference and Liza Smith with NNLM spoke about a Texas project that placed 20 iPad into the hands of people. She also gave me the person’s contact information in Texas. How wonderful is that! National Network...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 12, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Pershing Yeahquo, Kiowa, is the Veterans Outreach director and it has been a slow process but all worth it, when it all finally comes together. In a tribal community, it takes the business committee or tribal leadership approval and sometimes these people can be in...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Sep 12, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
The Town of Boley now has a media center, thanks to a donation of four desktops by the Cornell Computer Reuse Association and our NDIA project. The community has been without a library for about a decade. When the computers were set up, the major looked at them and...
by Sandy Tharp-Thee | Aug 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
I have been preparing to teach a new group of elder’s basic computer skills. I was recently asked to invite one of the elders who had already taken classes to come and visit with the elders preparing to take their first classes. Some of the elders have questions...
