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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

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. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

Tech Soup

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

Have Fun - Do Good

We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. I think it is a really good breakdown of what is currently happening in San Francisco in terms of the gentrification.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. And some of them had gardened before. So there's a pretty good amount in the Bay Area.