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Samaschool Uses Tech to Empower Low-Income People

Tech Soup

She argues, "Creating an email address, learning how to search for something online, learning how to talk on Skype, building a résumé on Microsoft Word — these are things that we think are very simple, and we take for granted, but you learn them automatically when you have access to the Internet.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories? I’ve love for my library to be both a physical and an online learning community. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well.

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