Community technology is the practice of synergizing the efforts of individuals, community technology centers and national organizations with federal policy initiatives around broadband, information access, education, and economic development.
National organizations efforts include:
- Developing effective language
- Executing and sharing strategies
- Sharing assets
- Pushing policy agendas
- Creating marketing boiler templates
- Tracking and sharing trends
Local organizations efforts include:
- Helping with national fundraising
- Educating local constituents about national issues
- Providing meaningful feedback
- Helping with grassroots organizing
- Piloting innovate projects
Individual efforts include:
- Asset sharing and collaboration both locally and (inter)nationally
- Embracing new technology and improving access to its effective use
- Building capacity for inclusion and accessibility
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“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure—the web—of society needed reform, not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”
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