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Technology Empowerment for Communities

Smart Riverside Digital Inclusion - The City of Riverside California is building a broad array of programs that promote citizen access, education and computer ownership both to support Riverside residents and to make this Inland Empire community more attractive to information intensive businesses. This short case study provides an overview of Smart Riverside’s partnerships and programs.

Technology Empowerment for Students, Teachers and Low-Income Families

Best Practices in Innovation and Sustainability

Schools and communities across the country are rising to the challenge of putting information technology in the hands of students, teachers and families and providing training and applications that empower users to leverage technology to further lifelong learning and achievement.

With an eye towards scalable and sustainable program design, this white paper summarizes the work of six communities that have used computers to empower students, families and teachers. These are all communities with comprehensive programs that include computing, access, training, support and application and they all represent best practices in technology empowerment for students, teachers and low-income families. Download full report:

Technology Empowerment for Students, Teachers and Low-Income Families

Download any of these two-page program briefs from Technology Empowerment for Students, Teachers and Low-Income Families:

Technology Empowerment Synopsis – A two page synopsis of all six best practices with an overview of elements found in most sustainable programs.

Technology Goes Home – A collaborative program of the Boston Digital Bridge Foundation that creates unique training collaborations and PC choices.

Fairfax County Public Schools K12nects II – Providing low-income families a preferred PC configuration and loan to increase home access to educational resources.

School District of Philadelphia FamilyNet – Combining a broad array of services to support families in getting a PC, training, access and support.

Computers for Youth – Offering partner schools an opportunity to equip an entire sixth grade class with home learning systems, PCs with hand-selected educational software.

Gateway Regional School District One-to-One Program – Comprehensive programs for teacher professional development and leased laptops for students.

New York Technology Placement Program – Offering all 250,00 New York State teachers access to a preferred PC bundle and customized training for educators.