This Unprecedented Digital Divide
librarian.net/talks/swflnMay 7, 2020
Slides: Keynote, PDF, PowerPoint
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cited links
- How to help someone use a computer by Phil Agre (my mirror)
- Pew Research: Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption
- Pew Research: Digital Readiness Gaps
- Digital Empowerment as a Process for Enhancing Citizens' Participation by Maarit Mäkinen
- What Do We Mean When We Say 'Digital Equity' and 'Digital Inclusion'? by NDIA's Angela Siefer
- Four Essentials for Digital Inclusion Efforts by Colin Rhinesmith
- Pew Research: As schools close due to the coronavirus, some U.S. students face a digital 'homework gap'
- Georgia Public Library wifi map
- Land O'Lakes, Inc. turning on the Wi-Fi in rural communities
- FB: Baxter Library's Show-off Show
- Free masks in Little Free Libraries
- Applying a racial equity lens to digital literacy (pdf)
- Digital Technology Adoption in Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities (pdf)
tech resources
- Basic computer terms
- Mousercise & Easy Census Help
- GCF Global simple computer tutorials
- How to take a screenshot
- Free and Low-Cost Internet Plans
- Wikipedia: Comparison of web conferencing software
misc resources
- Facebook: Libraries Step Up (in Times of Crisis)
- Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19 - printable signs
- Keep up with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance
- Tales from Drop-In Time
image credits
- Atari 2600 from Wikipedia
- Suzzallo Reading Room on Wikipedia
- computer service by Maxim Kulikov from the Noun Project
- Cell Phone by Chris Kerr from the Noun Project
- mobile data by Ali Coskun from the Noun Project
- equity by Laura Amaya from the Noun Project
- tech support by lastspark from the Noun Project
- Purina/Land O Lakes wifi sign
- Something positive: "librarians working from home" comic
- tech support by Vectors Market from the Noun Project
- Computer by Icon Lauk from the Noun Project
- Wifi by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
