Boston Summit
Boston Regional Digital Equity Summit
Strategic Planning to Close the Digital Divide at Home
for Low-income Children and Families
Strategic Planning to Close the Digital Divide at Home
for Low-income Children and Families
Friday, March 18, 2016
Ryan Lounge Foyer, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Ryan Lounge Foyer, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Attendance is free and includes breakfast, lunch, materials and sustained follow-up planning assistance
(Discounted room rate and car rental options)
(Discounted room rate and car rental options)
The Summit is intended for:
- School/Community Teams from high poverty neighborhoods in Boston and across the state who want to significantly narrow the digital divide at home for their low-income children and families, through the collective impact process.
- Philanthropists, Banking Leaders and other Digital Equity Investors who want to learn about essential dimensions of digital equity, proven resources in each dimension, and guiding principles to consider in designing digital equity investments.
- Researchers who seek to design and share research findings that support the community teams’ and digital equity investors’ efforts.
- Digital Equity Resource Providers: who want to orient communities and philanthropists to their resources and collaboratively plan next steps that support sustained, locally determined priorities and action.
The Summit’s aims are to:
- Equip school/community teams in high poverty communities with the knowledge, ongoing planning assistance and resources to design digital equity initiatives that address locally determined educational and economic opportunity goals.
- Share a compelling vision with philanthropists and investors regarding the essential dimensions and guiding principles that operationally define what it means to make effective “digital equity investments”.
The Summit is the kickoff to a sustained regional initiative undertaken by our partnership to assist school/community teams to design and carry out successful digital equity programs that contribute significantly to educational and economic opportunity.
Co-convening organizations include:
EDC’s National Collaborative for Digital Equity, Comcast, FSG, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Massachusetts Dept. of Elementary, Secondary Education, the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s College of Education and Human Development, Boston Public Schools and GovConnection.
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For those traveling to the event, special discounted room rates and car rental options are available to you.
For more information contact Dr. Robert McLaughlin, Co-Chair, National Collaborative for Digital Equity, EDC, Waltham MA at 617.618.2725 orrmclaughlin@edc.org.