Much of the work of the Instittute for Digital Diversity is in support of Community Technology initiatives. Community Technology refers to non-profit private and governmental efforts at the local level to extend technology access and literacy to citizens who might not otherwise have such access. A vast network of CT projects can be found all over the region, the nation, and the world. We in IDD are partnering with some of these projects, and learning from many other successful Community Technology efforts.
KEY NATIONAL COMM TECH SITES
- CTC Net The broadest resource site connecting folks working on community tech.
- Department of Eduaction Community Technology Center The prime federal government resource for communty tech.
- America Connects A wide-ranging resource for community tech work around the country.
REGIONAL COMMUNITY TECH LINKS
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Center to Bridge the Digital Divide A Washington State University resource featuring regional, national and international projects to lessen digital inequities.City of Seattle Tech Net Coordinates, promotes, and supports a variety of CT Centers and activities throughout the Seattle area.Community Connects Emerging network of regional community tech projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and administered from Washington State University.
- Community Technoiogy of North Central Washington Serves the technology needs of low-income groups and individuals throughout counties in the north central WA area.
- Community Technology Center and Options Program Run by the Seattle Indian Services Commission and focused especially on techno-literacy for Native youngsters.
- Digital Promise DP "focuses on the needs of residents in low-income, elderly, and disabled housing communities in Washington."
- Diversity in Technololgy Group Part of the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, aimed at diversifying access to math, science and technology education
- High Point School A tech center located inside High Point Elementary School in Seattle that serves as a community-based computer lab that serves High Point and surrounding communities in West Seattle and families from the school.
- NPower Seattle-based organization dedicated to providing tech training and assistance to not-for-profit organizations.
- The National Indian Telecommunications Institute A "dynamic, Native-founded and run organization dedicated to using the power of electronic technologies to provide American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native communities with extensive educational tools, equal opportunity and a strong voice in self-determination."
- Special Technology Access Resource (STAR) The STAR of Seattle is "an all inclusive computer learning center" that provides folks, espeically those with disabilities, access to computers and the Internet..
- Thunder Mountain Media Supports Native media in all forms.
- TINCAN Spokane-based non-profit that "provides education and support for social, economic and community development for the Inland Northwest region through the use of information technology and interactive media."
- Washington Assistive Technology Foundation WATF seeks "to improve the socioeconomic circumstances of people with disabilities by providing affordable credit and learning opportunities for assistive technology.
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