Digital for All
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Digital inclusion and the digital divide – clearly now more urgent than ever due to the pandemic – has been part of LA Tech4Good’s work for five years.
In 2017 we started with The Digital Divide. Or No, Everyone is NOT Online to draw attention to the issue.
Throughout 2018 we hosted a series of events with nonprofits working in Latinx communities to both outline the tech landscape and promote critical efforts in creating tech inclusion.
We continue to amplify this work through our Digital for All initiative in response to Covid, and hosted a June virtual event Breaking the Telehealth Divide.
We have gathered presenters from EveryoneOn, human-I-T, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Coachella Valley Unified School District, Youth Policy Institute, Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), LURN, Common Sense Latino, Los Angeles Public Library, PBS SoCal, AltaMed Health Services, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and CHLA Innovation Studio to share their successes and their challenges. Four-fifths of the panelists are people of color and over half are women – indicative of how the digital divide hits harder on communities of color, but also of who is doing the work day-to-day for digital equity. We are grateful to every single one of you and your organization's work.
LA Tech4Good launched our Digital for All campaign in May 2020 to help frame the vision of a new normal where digital access and adoption are universal. Gaping inequalities in access to internet cut across many conversations and have been brought into glaring light by the covid-19 pandemic. We want to come out the other side of the pandemic with closer digital connection and not a sharper divide.
"Broadband access & digital literacy [are] among the most critical social justice issues of our time.” —Norma Fernandez, CEO of EveryoneOn
Resources
National Digital Inclusion Alliance is a unified, national voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices and local technology training and support programs.
EveryoneOn: a national leader in facilitating internet access for low-income families, they bring internet offers and services directly to families.
human-I-T refurbishes electronics and provides them free of charge to folks who are offline.
USC Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) maps the digital divide across Los Angeles and California and makes their research available to the public.
Los Angeles Unified School District Weekly Update
DecisionData.org helps folks decide on telecom providers and offers news on varied digital topics.
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Event Recap: Leading LA Physicians Thrilled with Telehealth Adoption in their Communities
Indigenous Peoples Day: Tribes and Technology
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