Net Inclusion 2018: Full Schedule

9:00am CDT

Welcome

Moderators

Angela Siefer

executive director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Angela Siefer is the executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance. Angela has been working in the field we now call digital inclusion since 1997. From physically setting up computer labs in underserved areas and managing local digital inclusion programs to consulting... Read More →

Speakers

Laura Breeden

NDIA Board Member, NDIA

Very glad to be in San Antonio with so many digital inclusion believers. Please message me if you’d like to get together to talk about NDIA or proposal-writing or birding…🦜I have been doing digital equity work for a long time. (How did that bird get in there??) I co-founded... Read More →

Frank Jackson

Mayor, City of Cleveland

On Jan. 2, 2018, Mayor Frank G. Jackson took the oath of office for his historic fourth term – which will make him the City of Cleveland’s longest serving Mayor. During his time in office, Mayor Jackson has been an advocate for building equity and opportunity for all Clevelanders... Read More →

Wednesday April 18, 2018 9:00am - 9:20am CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary

9:20am CDT

Presentation of Digital Equity Champion Award

Wednesday April 18, 2018 9:20am - 9:45am CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary

9:45am CDT

Lightning Round 1: Emerging Tactics and New Directions

Speakers

Clayton Banks

CEO, Silicon Harlem

Kathy Bisbee

Executive Director/Founder, Brookline Interactive Group/Public VR Lab

Kathy Bisbee is the executive director of Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), a community media arts center, and the co-founder/director of the Public VR Lab, where she and her team are building an empowered Community XR movement and new field that values accessibility, digital inclusion... Read More →

Allister Chang

Executive Director, Libraries Without Borders

Allister Chang is the Executive Director of Libraries Without Borders (LWB). In the US, LWB is currently working to transform all 30,000+ laundromats in the US into spaces where families may connect & learn while they wait for their laundry to wash & dry. Internationally (in over... Read More →

Amy Gonzales

Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

I'm a researcher interested in collaborations with non-profits to better understand solutions to digital inequalities. I'm particularly interested in intermittent digital breakdown or disconnection and repair.

Seth Pinckney

Co-Founder, Hack Cleveland

Seth Pinckney is a seasoned technologist with a wide array of skills. With 15+ years of experience in digital and advocacy, he has planned, executed, and managed dozens of projects for organizations large national nonprofits, private corporate entities, government agencies, and small... Read More →

Samantha Schartman

CEO, Connected Insights

Samantha Schartman-Cycyk is a national leader in Digital Equity and Digital Transformation working to support communities in their efforts to create, drive and measure the impact of grassroots strategies to connect the unconnected.Formerly she served as the CEO of The Marconi Society... Read More →

Nicole Umayam

Digital Inclusion Library Consultant, Arizona State Library - Library Development

I'd love to talk with you about supporting tribal, urban, and rural communities and building librarian capacity for digital inclusion.

Connected Insights Lightning pitch pptx

HackCLE Digital Inclusion Week 2018 Lightning Google Slides#slide=id g35f391192 00 g35f391192 00 mht

1 Net Inclusion Lightning Round pptx

NDIA Public VR Lab 2018 pdf

Wednesday April 18, 2018 9:45am - 10:15am CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary, Lightning Round

12:15pm CDT

About NDIA

Speakers

Clayton Banks

CEO, Silicon Harlem

Bill Callahan

Director, Connect Your Community Institute

He/him. Director of Connect Your Community Institute (CYC) in Cleveland and Ashtabula, Ohio. Started working on neighborhood initiatives for digital inclusion in Cleveland in 1996. Former Research and Policy Director (2016-2020) and now Senior Policy Advisor for NDIA. Talk to me... Read More →

Tianca Crocker

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Hi! I\\'m a researcher, advocate, and educator focused on understanding the impact of digital inclusion on economically disadvantaged populations and how we can work together to create space for equitable economic growth through the digital economy.

Shauna Edson

Technology and Digital Equity Manager, Salt Lake City Public Library

Shauna is the Digital Inclusion Coordinator at The Salt Lake City Public Library. She leads the library’s digital inclusion initiative, the Tech League, and works with library staff and community partners to create long-term digital inclusion programming in the communities the Library’s... Read More →

Amina Fazlullah

Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla Foundation

Roberto Gallardo

Director, Purdue Center for Regional Development

Roberto Gallardo is Assistant Director of the Purdue Center for Regional Development and a Purdue Extension Community & Regional Economics Specialist. He holds an electronics engineering undergraduate degree, a master's in economic development, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration... Read More →

David Keyes

Digital Equity Advisor, City of Seattle IT Dept (Seattle IT)

I (he/him) work in digital equity at the intersection with information and communications technologies, race and social justice, and community capacity building. I have over 25 years experience guiding the City of Seattle’s digital equity strategic planning, advocacy, programs and... Read More →

Angela Siefer

executive director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Sandy Tharp-Thee

Sandy Tharp-Thee, was a former member of the 2017 Digital Inclusion Pilot Project in Oklahoma serving under served and rural communities. She is a 2017 Library Mover and Shaker. 2013 Whitehouse Champion of Change for libraries and museums, 2013 Oklahoma Ruth Brown Award for Social... Read More →

Nicole Umayam

Digital Inclusion Library Consultant, Arizona State Library - Library Development

I'd love to talk with you about supporting tribal, urban, and rural communities and building librarian capacity for digital inclusion.

Wednesday April 18, 2018 12:15pm - 12:55pm CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary

12:55pm CDT

Lightning Round 2: Access and Adoption

Speakers

Cristina Graham

Program Officer, Mobile Beacon

Elizabeth Lindsey

CEO, Byte Back

Elizabeth Lindsey is the Executive Director of Byte Back, a Washington, DC based nonprofit offering a free technology training pathway for unemployed adults. Byte Back is one of the only organizations in the country that helps adults with no or low tech skills move from beginner to... Read More →

Madeline Tate

Director of Partnerships and Programming, PCs for People

Madeline Tate is the Director of Partnerships and Programming at PCs for People. She is responsible for maintaining business and nonprofit partnerships across the US, including the scheduling of electronics recycling pickups with all business partners. Madeline has worked with PCs... Read More →

Nicole Umayam

Digital Inclusion Library Consultant, Arizona State Library - Library Development

I'd love to talk with you about supporting tribal, urban, and rural communities and building librarian capacity for digital inclusion.

Kelsey Webb

Marketing Communications Specialist, Mobile Citizen

Recent Mobile Citizen Marketing Communications Specialist hire, looking to further brand awareness initiatives on digital inclusion.

2 Net Inclusion Lightning Round pptx

Wednesday April 18, 2018 12:55pm - 1:15pm CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary, Lightning Round

3:15pm CDT

Plenary & Keynote

Limited Capacity seats available

Maria Smith from Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Karen Heredia from the New Media Advocacy Project will introduce "Dividing Lines", a new video highlighting the impact of Internet access disparities in American communities.

Professor Crawford will speak on the role of public regulation in helping or hindering equitable access to information technology in the U.S.

Professor Crawford will then join a panel with digital inclusion practitioners Bobby Coulter of Fresno Housing Authority and Elizabeth Lindsey of Byte Back. Moderated by Angela Siefer, the panel will discussion how communities are addressing these digital inequity disparities with and without government support.

Professor Crawford is a nationally recognized expert on Internet governance issues, broadband policy and city technology use who served as President Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. Her recent books include Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, and The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance (with Stephen Goldsmith). She writes regularly for WIRED.

The plenary & keynote will be webcast LIVE by our partners at Digital Charlotte. You can view the live webcast at https://www.digitalinclusion.org/keynote2018/.

Moderators

Angela Siefer

executive director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Speakers

Bobby Coulter

Assistant Director, Innovation and Technology, Fresno Housing

After nearly two decades of private sector IT experience, Bobby Coulter joined the Fresno Housing Authority in 2015. As a lifelong Fresno native-- raised on the same streets as Fresno Housing residents, Coulter understands first-hand the challenges in pursuing a career in technology... Read More →

Susan Crawford

John A. Reilly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Karen Heredia

New Media Advocacy Project

Elizabeth Lindsey

CEO, Byte Back

Hezzy Smith

Director of Advocacy Initiatives, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

Hezzy Smith, Esq. is a trilingual attorney, a proud sibling, and HPOD's Director of Advocacy Initiatives. He's responsible for much of HPOD’s self-advocacy programming. He has worked closely with self-advocacy and disabled peoples' organizations both in the United States and abroad... Read More →

Wednesday April 18, 2018 3:15pm - 4:45pm CDT
Cleveland Public Library - Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium

Plenary

Sponsor Link 1 http://digitalcharlotte.org/

9:45am CDT

Lightning Round 3: Digital Literacies

Speakers

Steve Black

Founder, Techboomers.com

Steve Black is a serial entrepreneur who came up with the idea for Techboomers while looking for an entrepreneurial opportunity that brought purpose into his life. One day, while helping his parents learn how to use Facebook, he realized there were no reliable websites that have quality... Read More →

Alyssa Kenney

Executive Director, DANEnet

Alyssa started her digital equity career in 1999 building community technology centers and teaching digital literacy classes. She pivoted away from technology and spent fifteen years of leading and managing two thriving community centers. In 2014, she returned to digital equity work... Read More →

Shaletha Mitchell

Board President, Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center

Shaletha Mitchell, a Cleveland native, is an intense advocate for youth academic development, and is a passionate promoter of digital literacy and inclusion. Shaletha currently serves as the Center Director for the Cleveland-Region Interprofessional Area Health Education Center... Read More →

Crystal Schimpf

Founder, Principal Training Consultant, Kixal Training

Crystal is a librarian and a trainer, with a passion for instructional design, training, and technology. As founder of Kixal, she provides innovative, transformative training for libraries on a wide range of topics. She has provided training on projects for the Urban Libraries Council’s... Read More →

Nicole Umayam

Digital Inclusion Library Consultant, Arizona State Library - Library Development

I'd love to talk with you about supporting tribal, urban, and rural communities and building librarian capacity for digital inclusion.

Stacey Wedlake

Research Scientist, University of Washington

Stacey Wedlake is a Research Scientist with the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington Information School. Her research focuses on the role of intermediaries (public libraries, community organizations, and governments) in digital equity efforts. She has a... Read More →

MIL Net Inclusion pptx

3 Net Inclusion Lightning Round pptx

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:45am - 10:15am CDT
Global Center Grand Ballroom 1 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

Plenary, Lightning Round