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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

While many in the digital inclusion sector have been pushing for digital equity for decades, there are others for whom the pandemic brought these issues to light. We saw more organizations and individuals becoming digital equity champions, affirming that we need government support in the sector.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books. We have the technological innovations to help these children and their families and educators, who are looking for strategies to aid their success. In September 2007, the U.S.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Lisa Libraries. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” . Guitar Center.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. She immediately got to work.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

According to his mom, this experience is common to children with Cerebral Palsy. They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.”

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