Community-Based Digital Inclusion Efforts

Wow! There are just too many amazing Oakland groups with digital inclusion efforts to fit into this blog before ODIS! Come to the Summit this Friday at Laney College to check out these groups and more:

OCCUR provides technical assistance and support to over 1000 local nonprofit groups. In addition to the Eastmont Computing Center, OCCUR projects include Neighborhood Revitalization, Neighborhood Profiles, Consumer Education, and the FAITHS Initiative.

National Radio Project, founded by International Media Project in 1994, is an independent media group that provides a “voice to diverse perspectives and opinions underrepresented in mass media,” and collaborates with and trains community groups and individuals to raise awareness and encourage civic participation in the media.

ZeroDivide, formerly the Community Technology Foundation, supports community organizations that empower traditionally underserved communities through digital inclusion projects. ZeroDivide focuses its efforts on wireless access, mobile applications, and social media/networking programs.

CAMINOS Pathways Learning Center “uses computers to provide educational and employment opportunities to low-income, immigrant women of the Bay Area.” Founded in 1999, CAMINOS offers tuition-free classes in technology as well as a job skills program to empower women limited by low literacy, poverty, and inadequate English language skills to rely on themselves and improve their living standards by moving from low-skilled manual or service labor to higher-paying desktop publishing and technology jobs.

~ by JSantana on February 12, 2008.