Monthly Archives: October 2012

Digital Divide Mini-Grants

The City of Champaign (IL) has a program to give several grants of up to $3000 to help existing and proposed public computing centers in Champaign. Applications: Applicant must fully complete the application, including the 10-questions in which the applicant

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Oct 24 Online Dialogue: Community Broadband

Community Broadband as a Path to Thriving Local Economies and Neighborhood Development is an online dialogue scheduled for Wednesday, October 24th at 10am PST / 1pm EST (for 60 minutes) *RSVP Now!* In the last several years local communities, governments,

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Rhinesmith publishes on Philadelphia Hot Spots

Colin Rhinesmith, Research Scholar at the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) and doctoral student at the at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) just had an article published in the International Journal of

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Reading Group Hosts Session on Mentoring

On October 11, 2012, the Inclusions and Exclusions Reading Group welcomed Susan Gershenfeld, Director of Illinois Promise, an I-Promise student, Bianca Flowers, and Clarence Shelley, an I-Promise donor, to talk with us about mentoring undergraduate students on the University of

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Engaged Scholarship Conference

On October 1, 2012, Martin Wolske, Senior Research Scientist with CDI, presented his paper, “Technology Education and Engaged Scholarship: The Professional, Personal, and Political,” at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) at the University of Alabama. A copy of the

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