"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:
  • Steps 1 and 2 of Building Digital Communities
    
  • Libraries: Natural Leaders of Community-Wide Digital Inclusion Efforts
  • Building Digital Communities: Pilot
  • Stakeholder Worksheet (xls)
  • Building Digital Communities Worksheet
• 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