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Bridging the Digital Divide: Challenges and Solutions Discussion

Join Jessamyn West in a thought-provoking discussion on the digital divide, unique issues faced in Mississippi, and strategies to empower communities through technology access. Explore key divides, economic implications, and the myth of digital natives. Discover solutions like increased wifi access, tailored IT assistance, and incentivizing community participation. Learn practical techniques like "Put the idea into your own words", Reminder System, and Buddy System. Enhance your understanding and impact in closing the digital gap.

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Challenges and Solutions Discussion

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  1. The Digital Divideand you • a discussion with Jessamyn West • @jessamyn Mississippi Library Conference October 14, 2014 librarian.net/talks/mla14

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  3. Not available! 63,000 people

  4. Yay libraries • 91% offer free wifi • 74% report increased wifi use • 60% report increased computer use • 62% are the only source of free access to computers/internet in their communities

  5. Mississippi • has some unique issues

  6. offline people • 25% share a home with an online person • 14% used to use the internet but stopped • 63% say they would need help getting online • 92% are not interested in getting online

  7. "Can't get it" 7% "Too hard" "Too much $$" 19% 32% 34% "Not for me"

  8. Divides contain multitudes • Economic • Usability • Empowerment

  9. tricky issues • Device-based broadband downsides • Bad design in government sites • Myth of digital "natives" vs "tourists" • No infrastructure support • PEBCAK * * problem exists between keyboard and chair

  10. what's normal?

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  14. C C C C ount ollect heer C + C + C

  15. C Complain. • Not enough computers/not enough time/hours • broadband speed is slow • $$$ needed to fix the above • confidentiality w/r/t things people need help with • ADA compliance • “just go to the library” for all this • assumed expertise • communications problems • lack of understandings different libraries • viruses/scams • babysitter’s club

  16. C • increase in wifi access after doing a class • circ/bodies/traffic • length of sessions? “f this noise” • timed door count (after classes) Count?

  17. C • dedicated person for IT not library employee. one on one help • equipment that isn’t more limited computer (Chromebooks/notebooks) • keyboard/typing issues - touchscreen/dragon? • incentivize: scanning, family history, resume, yearbook Collect?

  18. C Communicate? • in-library promos: banners • facebook - people tagging other people in the library • getting the ear of a professor, football games • 3D printer - print out logo toys, spread around to schools • newspaper/high school announcements

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  20. The PROblem • Head full of good ideas + • Weird sleep away from home + • Colleague overload + • Snack onslaught

  21. Retrograde amnesia

  22. How do we remember?

  23. Stay moving forward?

  24. 3 Techniques • “Put the idea into your own words.” • Reminder System • Buddy System

  25. I. Your words • One library thing • One non-library thing

  26. II. Reminder • Sign my email list • I will email you • You will tell me how you’re doing

  27. III. Buddy system • Find someone you don’t know • Exchange emails • “In two weeks, ask me if I’ve done __________ yet.”

  28. Surprisingly not magic

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