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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Over the next year, these fellows will be learning, sharing, designing, implementing, and challenging themselves to become digital inclusion experts who can and will transform their communities.

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Vote for the Winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards!

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Don’t forget: Your votes determine which organizations go home with fantastic prizes: NTEN will provide the contest winner with a free registration pass to the 2015 NTC in Austin, Texas Cisco will contribute a cash prize to the winner of the Best Nonprofit Video Award The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture in partnership with the National (..)

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' Google Fiber is roughly 100 times faster than ordinary broadband, but costs about the same or somewhat less. The Community Driven Fund. Image: City of Kansas City.

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Methodist Unveils $181 Million Investment

The NonProfit Times

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. (MHM) MHM’s mission also includes its one-half ownership of Methodist Healthcare — the largest healthcare system in South Texas. MHM) is investing $181.1 million to advance health equity, strengthen communities and impact systemic change across its 74-county service area.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

" Dr. Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Nonprofit and Library App Survey from App It Up

Tech Soup

For example, North Texas Library Partners mentioned that they created Information Assistant , an Android app that promotes information literacy. They were also interested in. developing mobile-friendly versions of their websites (vs. standalone mobile apps). Some organizations are already building their own apps.

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