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DCTP is seeking a Data Justice Community Fellow

The Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) is seeking a Data Justice Community Fellow for a 6-month curriculum development project. The primary focus of the Fellow will be to incorporate existing Data Justice media into a training curriculum suitable for community organizations, businesses, and others seeking an actionable pathway to mindful Data Stewardship. The role’s focus explores issues of data rights, digital privacy and racial and economic inequality in the United States. We strongly encourage people of color, women, non-binary, LGBTQIA, and disabled candidates to apply!

Position Details

This is a part-time contract position with the expectation of 15-20 hours of work per week at a rate of $30 per hour, beginning in March of 2022.

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The Detroit Community Technology Project is Hiring a Full-Time IT Manager

DCTP is hiring an IT Manager to support the development of our local wireless deployment and general organizational IT needs.

The IT manager will be supervised by DCTP’s Chief Network Engineer, Anderson Walworth, apprenticing to become a wireless engineer and community technologist while managing the IT systems within DCTP. The IT manager will work with DCTP staff, the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) Digital Stewards, and other partners to continuously design and refine our approach to teaching technology, designing and managing systems that track our technical assets and deployments, and building technology solutions.

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Detroit Community Technology Project is Hiring an Equitable Internet Initiative Coordinator!

DCTP is hiring an Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) Coordinator to support the program director.

Detroit Community Technology Project’s (DCTP) mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and to the planet. Born from the Detroit Digital Justice Principles, we work to demystify technology and expand digital literacy in our communities

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Through EII, a program of... Continue reading

Healing the Digital Divide With Community Equity, Not Corporate Extraction

Written by Katie Hearn and Janice Gates

Nowhere are the intersections of racism, poverty, and technology more visible than in majority Black Detroit. With a pre-COVID-19 median household income of about $29,000, quality internet access-- much like water-- is unaffordable to many Detroiters. While it's true that a concerted effort from public, private, and grassroots communities is necessary to impact Detroit's digital divide, a lasting, just, and equitable solution begins with dismantling the structures that created it. These structures, rooted in capitalism and racism, cannot support an equitable solution for bridging the digital divide. From our orientation to data... Continue reading

Thank you, Tawana!


Mother, author, poet, social justice organizer and youth advocate, “yelder”, mentor and consistent inspiration to us all, our beloved director of Data Justice, Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty, has moved on from her monumental chapter here at Detroit Community Technology Project. Tawana’s work was pivotal to our evolution as an organization and touches all corners of the globe. We’re sending her forward with the deepest love, gratitude, and excitement for what’s next.

Tawana’s active role in the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition brought her to this work, where she collaborated on dozens of DiscoTech... Continue reading

Meet the All Women Digital Steward Team at Grace in Action Connecting Their Neighborhood

At Grace in Action, the Equitable Internet Initiative’s partner in Southwest Detroit, their Digital Stewards are a team of women technologists working to ensure their neighborhood is connected and resilient. Digital Stewards build and maintain network infrastructure, demystify technology for their communities and facilitate a healthy integration of technology into people’s lives and communities. By doing so, they are embodying the belief that access to communication and high-speed internet is a human right.

When Shiva, GIA’s newest Digital Steward, joined the team... Continue reading

In Support of Black Liberation

illustration of a group of people, with fists up and breaking down a brick wall, with text that reads 'defend our communities, defund police'

All of us at Detroit Community Technology Project are holding space for the righteous rage and grief moving within us and our communities. The particular anti-blackness of the COVID-19 pandemic and policing are devastating independently and unimaginable to have to navigate simultaneously.

We stand in firm solidarity with those resisting anti-black racism and white supremacy and affirm all... Continue reading

COVID-19 Statement

black-and-white sketch of sunflowers, overlayed with the text 'solidarity. we are all we really have.'

To Our Community,

The moment we are living through has been undoubtedly frightening and uncertain. Many of us are forced to... Continue reading

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