Building a Digital Dodge City
This webinar provides a look at Dodge City's community-wide digital inclusion initiative to understand the process of engaging multiple sectors throughout the process.
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"What does digital inclusion mean for people in a community? All people, businesses, and institutions will have access to digital content and technologies that enable them to create and support health, prosperous, and cohesive 21st century communities." (Building Digital Communities: Getting Started)
Building a digitally inclusive community requires buy-in and engagement from all sectors, with libraries playing a lead role alongside government, schools, businesses, and individuals. Using the principles and steps in Building Digital Communities: A Framework for Action, Dodge City, Kansas is engaging stakeholders, aligning interests, setting community-wide goals and developing demonstration projects. Join us for a conversation with the Dodge City leadership team discussing why they have prioritized a community-wide initiative, the challenges of working with multiple sectors (with diverging goals!), what they expect from the project and what they recommend to others considering a similar path.
Presented by
- Cathy Reeves, Director, Dodge City Public Library
- Jane Longmeyer, Director of Public Relations, City of Dodge City
- Greta Clark, Professor and Director of Multicultural Education, Dodge City Community College
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Related Resources
- On WebJunction, Digital Inclusion, including:
- Pew Internet research
- Home Broadband 2013
- Digital differences
- How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms
- Building Digital Communities: A framework for action
- Libraries Succeed by Constantly Evolving, Susan Hildreth in Huffington Post
Date
10 September 2013
Time
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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