Sentences with phrase «to close the digital divide»

Labs in these churches, available for after - school and other programs for youth, can help close this digital divide.

What's working to close the digital divide in your community?

What is your community doing to close the digital divide for underserved groups such as juvenile offenders, recent immigrants, or the elderly?

He is passionate about helping educators transform teaching and learning through technology integration and closing the digital divide through equitable access to technology for all students.

Educators can help close the digital divide by ensuring ELL students have multiple opportunities to flex their digital citizenship muscles.

The revolutionary color ePaper display delivers a high - contrast, sunlight readable, low - power performance that further closes the digital divide between paper and electronic displays.

«We saw a need to help diverse businesses close the digital divide.

Our voices were heard on critical issues such as the need to enhance community input on the siting of Wi - Fi kiosks, as well as on investing revenue from the deal into infrastructure improvements that will help our City close the digital divide for Brooklynites and all New Yorkers.

Only when there's equal opportunity for everyone to become literate in these technologies so that they're creating and not just consuming content can we begin to imagine closing the digital divide.

Efforts to close the digital divide continue at the federal level.

The plans of both candidates offer a smorgasbord of remedies to close the achievement gap between poor and affluent school districts, including approaches to help schools close the digital divide.

Chike Aguh, CEO of EveryoneOn, focuses on closing the digital divide so that families, young people, and community members can learn, access resources, and thrive.

As educators, we can help close the digital divide by ensuring ELL students have multiple opportunities to flex their digital citizenship muscles.

We need to close the digital divide between rural and urban businesses and give countryside businesses in England better access to markets.

But as Adams and others have learned, devices alone won't close the digital divide.

«As Queen Geek,» Tantoco joked, «I mean, Chief Technology Officer, I look forward to working together with Civic Hall to harness the creativity, the incredible creativity of all New Yorkers, to help close the digital divide, to foster an innovation economy and to incubate the next generation of government technology.»

Eliminating programs that bring more people online won't increase social inclusion or close the digital divide.

Many of the city officials, including Scott Stringer and Gale Brewer, emphasized improving and expanding technology education, growing the technology economy, and closing the digital divide.

Bugscope also helps to close the Digital Divide — classrooms with minimal equipment, whether in the inner city or an isolated rural area, can utilize Bugscope.

In Dorsen's mind, closing the digital divide is as much about giving young people enriching opportunities as it is about creating a diverse cadre of computer - savvy professionals.

As a homegrown solution, they are enlisting parents as partners to help close the digital divide.

Instead, they are enlisting parents as partners to help close the digital divide.

This Hechinger Report series examines a national effort to close the digital divide by connecting all American schools to high - speed Internet, and why so many schools still lag so far behind.

States have been targeting federal technology funds primarily into three areas: increasing student achievement, closing the digital divide, and integrating research - based technology practices into learning, concludes a report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association.

Technology will help close the digital divide to help our children compete in the 21st century.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and private technology companies and service providers have launched a collaborative effort to close the digital divide by providing greatly discounted broadband Internet service and low - cost, refurbished computers to low - income families.

Our series examines the national effort to close the digital divide by connecting all American schools to high - speed Internet, and why so many schools still lag so far behind.

Aiming to close the digital divide, Cherrypal has launched what it calls the «Africa», a $ 9... 9 Netbook sporting a 7 ″ screen, 400Mhz ARM processor, 256Mb of RAM and a princely 2Gb of Flash memory, which can run Windows CE or Linux.

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And restoring a favorable climate for network investment is key to closing the digital divide, spurring competition and innovation that benefits consumers.»