View one of our early prototypes here!
The Equitable Internet Initiative's approach to creating a healthy digital ecosystem includes: 1) Teaching technology in a way that meets learners where they are and accounts for all the ways in which they learn information. 2) Regularly engaging the community in information gathering and decision making. 3) Providing trainings on digital security, privacy and consent to those who build the internet infrastructure and those who use the Internet. 4) Creating customer agreements that honor privacy, data and net neutrality. 5) Intentionally engaging partners that align with the EII principles in ways that scale the Digital Stewards program, enhance steward’s skills and create career pathways. 6) Redefining what and who a technologist is.
DCTP is working with our Digital Stewards teams to design and build an online learning platform for Community Technology to scale distribution of our learning and instructional materials. The platform is based on our existing Teaching Community Technology handbook and will make the full Digital Stewards curriculum available, including community organizing basics, data justice and consent, digital safety and security, and planning resilient communications infrastructure for emergency preparedness. The platform will also make available steward’s frequently-accessed planning tools and technical guides, creating streamlined avenues for continued education and on-boarding and mentoring of new stewards.