Title
\nCommunity Technology in Champaign-Urbana Flyer and Announcement
\nSubject
\nCommunity Informatics, eBlackCU Public Meetings
\nDescription
\nSaturday MAY 7th, 2011
\n9 a.m- 12:30 p.m.
\nChampaign Public Library
\nRobeson Rooms A & B<\/p>\n
A public meeting on:
\nUC2B
\nThe eBlackCU digital library
\nJobs and Technology
\nYouth and Technology
\nChurches and Technology<\/p>\n
Plus Community Technology Workshop:
\nLearn how to digitize and share online your photographs, fliers,
\nscrapbooks, and books! Bring your own or digitize files we have.
\nTake home a free CD of your digitized materials!
\n*Also: Help getting e-mail\/Facebook accounts!<\/p>\n
More information at http:\/\/eBlackCU.net. Contact:
\nnlenstr2@illinois.edu or 244-8203.<\/p>\n
==<\/p>\n
Over 450 people in Champaign-Urbana have attended Public Forums on
\nDigital Technology, Digital Education, Digital Community and Digital
\nJobs. This event continues this momentum. We need all voices and all
\nbackgrounds to mobilize to change our community for the better.<\/p>\n
YOU are invited to come and share what you and your community groups
\ndo with technology, what you have thought about doing with technology,
\nwhat obstacles you face, and some solutions you have come up with.<\/p>\n
Our goals are articulated in the Community Technology Manifesto:
\nhttps:\/\/eblackcu.net\/portal\/manifesto, which EVERYONE is invited to
\nsign.<\/p>\n
This event will feature discussion and updates on: the eBlackCU
\nDigital Library of local African-American History and Culture, Jobs
\nand Technology, Youth and Technology, Churches and Technology, and
\nUC2B Big Broadband Network.<\/p>\n
This event will be broadcast LIVE around the world at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/eblack-champaign-urbana<\/p>\n
A workshop will be held on-site to help interested individuals with
\ne-mail, facebook, the eBlackCU digital library, and digitization of
\nphotographs, scrapbooks and personal and community history
\ncollections. Come to digitize your material and go away with A FREE CD
\nof your digitized material. IF YOU INTEND TO BRING LARGE ITEMS TO THE
\nWORKSHOP WE RECOMMEND E-MAILING US AHEAD OF TIME at
\nnlenstr2@illinois.edu so that we ensure we can meet your needs.<\/p>\n
Come to this meeting to find out how individuals and groups in our
\ncommunity have mobilized to get out of UC2B (http:\/\/www.uc2b.net\/) the
\nfollowing community benefit resolution. Find out how YOU CAN PLAY A
\nPART in making sure the community gets everything it can out of this
\n$30 million dollar high-speed broadband network.<\/p>\n
Community Benefit Resolution Passed by UC2B Policy Committee, April 20, 2011:<\/p>\n
1. The Policy Committee (of UC2B) will issue an annual public report
\non the digital divide in the UC2B service area (the area of the seven
\nrings including all of Urbana, Champaign, and Savoy).
\n2. The Policy Committee will convene an annual meeting of anchor
\nsocial institutions to discuss the above report and set general goals
\nfor overcoming the digital divide. This meeting will be open to the
\npublic, and be scheduled as a regular meeting of all UC2B committees.
\n3. At the end of each fiscal year, unless UC2B has operated at a
\ndeficit that year, the Policy Committee will allocate at least 5% of
\nits annual revenue to a community benefit fund as a line item in the
\nbudget. Money from this fund will be dedicated to overcoming the
\ndigital divide, according to the general goals as above and the
\nprocess as below.
\n4. The Advisory Committee for Digital Equality will develop and carry
\nout a plan, including competitive grant awards from the community
\nbenefit fund to non\u00e2\u20ac\u0090governmental agencies, to implement the general
\ngoals as above. If there is no available money in any given year, no
\ngrants will be made. The Advisory Committee will forward to the Policy
\nCommittee its recommendations for spendingthe community benefit fund,
\nand the Policy Committee will make the final decision.<\/p>\n
Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n
Share this invite with your friends.<\/p>\n
Link: https:\/\/eblackcu.net\/portal\/items\/show\/1195<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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