Connecting the Poor and the Homeless to Technology For Empowerment

I’ve been in San Francisco since yesterday working with the Zero Divide Fellowship (a program of the Community Technology Foundation of California.)

We have put together a “State-wide Community Technology Roadmap.”

Here is a brief description:

This Roadmap is the result of the Policy Group's efforts, it proposes a statewide strategy on information technology access and use to benefit all communities in California, particularly the poorest and most underserved. It documents the critical needs of disadvantaged communities as they relate to technology and suggests policy prescriptions for the next five years.

The ZFellows Policy Group believes that accessible and available technology is a quality of life indicator for community health. The lack of understanding of the power and importance of this indicator is a major barrier to universal access. Thus, increasing awareness could be the major component in increasing technology access to underserved people and underserved communities.

Here is a link to the Roadmap.

It has been presented to political officials in Sacramento.