Netroots Nation Panel on Bridging the Digital Divide
How can the poor, who often have limited or no access to the Internet, become content providers on the Web? What’s being done to help those who can’t afford computers get their concerns and messages across over the Internet? These issues and more were discussed last week at the Netroots Nation panel Building a National Broadband Plan: How Activists in California Are Bridging the Digital Divide. Featured speakers were Sasha Constanza-Chock, founder of VozMob (Voces Moviles, Mobile Voices); Madelou Gonzalez, a VozMob member and volunteer for the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California; Amalia Deloney, Grassroots Policy Director for the Center for Media Justice; and Ruth Williams, Community Investment Officer for ZeroDivide. LA Media Reform’s own Will Coley served as moderator. Watch the entire session below:
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Sylvia and 
Amanda are discussing. 
Amanda 2:55 pm on August 2, 2010 Permalink |
Nice! I hope we can get some of those (all!) speakers at our upcoming summit… Access to Broadband as topic for our panel?
As stated above, barriers to broadband include access and affordability…”One of the more hidden barriers is relevancy. For people to desire broadband generally, they must understand why it’s important to have it. This understanding is strongest when people become generators and producers of their own content. We found that content’s level of sophistication and the type of content is less important than the times people create. So the amount of time you spend creating, the amount of things that you do create, is more important to your understanding and desire for broadband. ”
Maybe a nice tie-in with all of our media-creating workshops!
Sylvia 9:07 pm on August 2, 2010 Permalink |
Yes, I agree, this would make a good workshop.