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The Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion facilitates collaboration among organizations and initiatives working to bridge the digital divide in order maximize resources for the greatest impact.

The Technology Literacy Collaborative is a network of digital inclusion supporters committed to sharing best practices, advocating for technology and digital literacy skills and access, and promoting collaborative efforts.

The Digital Empowerment Community of Austin (DECA) is a network of nonprofits, educational institutions and other stakeholders working to improve the Austin community's ability to participate in digital society.

KEYSPOT is a network of public, private and nonprofit organizations that provide technology, training and other opportunities through community-based public access centers. KEYSPOT is dedicated to improving education, economic and social outcomes for all Philadelphians through technology.

The Portland Digital Inclusion Network is a coalition of community organizations interested in raising awareness about digital equity barriers and developing solutions to bridge the digital divide.

The goal of this research is to provide digital inclusion practitioners easy access to information that can be used to support programmatic goals, both to improve their programs and request funding while also providing policymakers information they can use to make strategic decisions impacting digital inclusion.

In this webinar, Joanne Hovis describes the evolution of consumer broadband service technologies with a focus on providing an understandable, jargon-free technical explanation for the non-technical.

Community Technology Network works with a variety of underserved populations in the Bay Area to improve their digital literacy through training and education.

Tech Goes Home (TGH) was founded in 2000 and is a national award-winning initiative empowering communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.

Tech Goes Home Chattanooga (TGH CHA) is The Enterprise Center's new digital inclusion program for residents across Hamilton County.

DANEnet has served Dane County nonprofit organizations since 1995 by offering on-site technical support, technical training and technical planning and consulting services.

The California Emerging Technology Fund 2017 annual survey, Internet Connectivity and the "Digital Divide" in California Households tracks the progress of broadband deployment and adoption throughout California.

Connect.DC works to bridge the digital divide by making technology easier to use, more accessible, more affordable and more relevant to the everyday lives of District residents.

For over 15 years, WinstonNet has been working to close the digital divide in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.

Connect Your Community is a nonprofit organization based in Cleveland that is working to develop sustainable strategies to help disconnected people and communities to overcome their “digital exclusion” and join the digital mainstream.

In this ultimate guide, TechBoomers.com gives you a complete breakdown of digital literacy.

This subject is of increasing importance, and TechBoomers.com wants you to be fully in the know. Read on and learn more about the impact of the digital divide.

If you don’t want to fall behind, you need to be proactive in your learning of digital technologies. Think of learning digital literacy as an opportunity for learning how to make your life easier, rather than something you need to struggle to keep up with.

Check out this list of 32 of the best digital literacy websites. These websites are 100% free to use!

Digital competence is the ability to not only understand and make use of digital technologies and systems, but also to possess the confidence to use them creatively, critically and without assistance.

Possessing digital skills is so important in today’s modern world, having digital skills is essential, both for your personal life, and in the workplace.

Obtaining basic digital skills around the house will be the backbone of your ability to integrate them into other aspects of your life.

To help you better understand the world of digital skills, here are 14 articles you should read right away! They are sorted into easy categories so whether you’re looking for information on digital literacy in the classroom, the workplace, the home or anywhere else, these are great posts to get started with.

If you want to learn how to improve your digital literacy skills, here is the solution for you. This article outlines a list of the 8 best sites for free online learning.

Digital literacy programs are educational sessions that help to train those with the inability to make use of digital technologies and the internet independently. They teach digital skills that can be applied to the user’s life, making tasks easier, faster and safer.

Here are seven simple steps to creating your own digital literacy curriculum. It’s not as challenging as you may think to introduce digital literacy across the curriculum you currently teach.

This article explains the differences between teaching these skills in the classroom environment, teaching them to improve job performance and teaching to help the community.

Since the late 1990s, inequalities in tech adoption have been characterized as the “digital divide,” and the focus has been mainly on the binary “haves versus have nots.” However, there has recently been a pivot in the technology adoption discussion that looks at people’s preparedness, such as their digital skills and their trust in technology, which may influence their use of digital tools separate from their access to them. The term often used to capture these factors is “digital readiness.”

Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness when it comes to using tech tools to pursue learning online and many are not eager or ready to take the plunge.

When it comes to the right amount and type of screen time, there seem to be more questions than answers. Check out this article from Ed Surge to explore this important issue.

This study from researchers at Purdue University attempts to create a broader understanding of digital readiness through the development of a digital readiness index (DRI) score.

A written and visual resource, created by the online Master of Library and Information Science program at University of Denver's Morgridge College of Education, that delves into computer and internet access throughout the United States and the role of libraries in providing the access and skills needed to bridge the gap between information and access.

Americans fall along a spectrum of preparedness when it comes to using tech tools to pursue learning online and many are not eager or ready to take the plunge.

If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, digitallearn.org has the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.

Learn My Way is a website of free online courses for beginners, helping users develop digital skills to make the most of the online world.

Connected Nation believes that states, communities, families and individuals can realize great economic and social advantages when broadband availability in underserved areas and broadband use in all areas is increased.

The mission of the Technology Learning Collaborative is to sustain a robust network of community-based organizations doing digital literacy work, improve and expand programming across Philadelphia, share and promote member resources to the wider communities it serves, offer professional training and development for member staff, collaborate on high priority interest areas, and advocate for projects and programs that promote digital literacy and reduce the digital divide.

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project defines basic skills needed to perform tasks on computers and online. The ability of adults to perform these tasks can be assessed through online, self-guided modules. Included are basic computer digital literacy standards and modules in ten main areas: Basic Computer Use, Internet, Windows Operating System, Mac OS, Email, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Information Literacy. Northstar is an assessment, not a curriculum.

NTEN believes that technology allows nonprofits to work with greater social impact. It enables its members to strategically use technology to make the world a better, more just and equitable place. NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within its community. It connects its members to each other, provides professional development opportunities, educates its constituency on issues of technology use in nonprofits and spearheads groundbreaking research, advocacy and education on technology issues affecting the entire community.

Free internet skills curriculum from Tech Goes Home that is available in English and Spanish.

The Health Informatics Information Technology Section improves the public’s health and promotes prevention and early intervention by advancing the use of innovative and effective information technology and informatics applications.

A report by COSN outlining the necessity of 24/7 broadband access to student learning.

The FCC is currently mulling over a proposal to essentially gut the one program it runs that aims to make communications services more affordable: the Lifeline program.

How a large Texas district developed iConnect, an innovative program that extends district-sponsored Wi-Fi access to underserved students where they live.

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance is a unified voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices and local technology training and support programs. It works collaboratively to craft, identify and disseminate financial and operational resources for digital inclusion programs while serving as a bridge to policymakers and the general public.

As a federally tax-exempt nonprofit, the National Coalition for Digital Equity provides free dissemination and policy education as well as comprehensive, fee-based consulting services, in support of digital equity for economic and educational opportunity.

As the national organization for sociologists, the American Sociological Association, through its executive office, is well positioned to provide a unique set of services to its members and to promote the vitality, visibility and diversity of the discipline. Working at the national and international levels, the association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.

The wiki-based Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Commons is to be one of the main resources of the CIRN community, next to the annual Prato conference and the Journal of Community Informatics. It is the successor to the ciresearch.net site, and should contain a dynamic knowledge repository necessary for community informatics research and practice to be done more effectively and efficiently.

The Communication Policy and Technology Section’s focus is on communication policy, with a keen interest in the socio-economic aspects of technological change. The Section welcomes theoretical and empirical studies and research that bridges theory and practice by offering scientific reflection as well as guidelines for political action. It does not adhere to any single philosophical or theoretical school, but encourages research that is critical.

The aims of the Digital Divide Working Group is to contribute to theoretical understanding of inequality in access to information and media in the new digital environment; trace the development of new media through the concept of digital divide; identify gaps and inconsistencies in the digital media world, their origins and development; specify problems for media and communication systems brought about by ICT progress in local, national and global environments; promote better communication between researchers from different countries and continents; support innovative research in the field and support young researchers.

International Communications Association (ICA) is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA began more than 50 years ago as a small association of U.S. researchers and is now a truly international association with more than 4,500 members in 80 countries. Since 2003, ICA has been officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental association (NGO).

iSchools is a consortium of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. These schools, colleges and departments have been newly created or are evolving from programs formerly focused on specific tracks such as information technology, library science, informatics, information science and more. While each individual iSchool has its own strengths and specializations, together they share a fundamental interest in the relationships between information, people and technology.