Members of InterConnection, Seattle’s Digital Fairness Crew, and the Eritrean Affiliation in Better Seattle maintain newly refurbished laptops donated to the Eritrean Affiliation in Better Seattle. In honor of Digital Inclusion Week, October 2-6, Metropolis of Seattle Digital Fairness workers members partnered with InterConnection, a non-profit group that refurbishes computer systems to assist join underserved people to very important know-how, to present Eritrean Affiliation in Better Seattle laptops. These laptops shall be utilized by group members for digital expertise coaching and later given to those that they recognized as having monetary constraints.
“Generally the one factor stopping somebody from getting on-line is a working laptop computer. We’re actually excited to have the ability to enhance the provision of much-needed gadgets and to get them within the fingers of group members by means of this partnership with InterConnection, Eritrean Affiliation of Better Seattle, Somali Neighborhood Companies of Seattle, and Villa Comunitaria,” mentioned Jon Morrison Winters, Seattle’s Digital Fairness Program and Broadband Supervisor.
As Digital Inclusion Week continues, the Digital Fairness workforce will proceed its partnership with InterConnection by distributing laptops to 2 extra Digital Navigator organizations – Somali Neighborhood Companies of Seattle and Villa Comunitaria. These organizations plan to make use of the gadgets to create capability for added actions, courses, and packages, giving extra people entry to know-how and packages that in any other case may be out of attain.
Seattle’s work on bridging the digital divide expands past the primary week of October. A latest report reveals the impression of a number of years of the Metropolis’s Digital Grants program and the impression they’ve on the group. This report is highlighted in a latest Tech Discuss Weblog publish outlining a number of the key takeaways from Metropolis’s Digital Fairness program.
At the moment, the appliance interval is open for the 2024 Digital Fairness grants. Purposes are being accepted now by means of November 9, 2023. Be taught extra about this system, software course of and upcoming digital data periods by visiting our web site.
The Metropolis of Seattle’s Data Know-how Division (Seattle IT) oversees the Metropolis’s Digital Fairness Program. To study extra concerning the grant program, reduced-cost web alternatives, the Inexpensive Connectivity Program (ACP), and different alternatives, go to seattle.gov/tech. Seattle IT is a trusted associate that gives safe, dependable, and compliant applied sciences, enabling the Metropolis to ship equitable and responsive providers to the general public.
