Digital Inclusion Fund to offer $250,000 in grants to help KC area's crusade against digital divide

The Digital Inclusion Fund is back. Because persistent gaps still separate KC-area families from essential digital connections, a renewed campaign beginning June 3 will be taking applications to draw from a $250,000 fund to support area organizations in the work of digital equity.

KC Digital Drive celebrates the "doers striving to change the community"

“People that are passionate, people that have a compelling idea, that’s where we go to support the doers and the actors who are striving to make change in the community.”

Workshop to help families get internet, low-cost TV streaming

Need help finding low-cost access to TV entertainment and information? Or help getting affordable Internet? A free workshop will help households learn about inexpensive ways to get Internet and online streaming services — and get free Google Chromecast.

KC Beacon: KC Goes Tech provides training — and earning potential — to the people

In Kansas City and across the country, there aren’t enough workers to fill middle-skills jobs. KC Digital Drive has launched a microgrant program to attack this issue. See how it works and how to apply.

Chromebooks to go: KC Library lending free computers, hot spots

Need a computer? The Kansas City Public Library now has 900 Chromebooks available to anyone with a library card for 21-day checkouts..

Apply now: Help is here for Internet bills, computer needs, but funds may be limited

Some $3.2 billion in federal funds is now up for grabs to help qualifying households with Internet bills or computer needs, and local agencies want to be sure Kansas City families are getting assistance. Here’s what you need to know.

Relief fund can help many households get internet access

Good, high-speed internet access is more important now than ever for work, school, or just to stay in touch with friends and family, but it can be hard to fit in your budget. The Internet Access Support Program can help.

With new Internet to Go checkouts, KC Library addresses a critical need

The COVID-19 pandemic consequences are all too clear, from an inability to seek out social services, search for a job, or now do schoolwork to the heartache of disconnect from family and friends. That’s why the Kansas City Public Library is offering Wi-Fi hotspots for a free, 14-day checkout.

KC's 'golden moment' for digital equity: You can help 'get it done.'

Kansas City has extended a public opportunity to help build a city plan to get all Kansas Citians effectively online. They want to herd a widespread stampede to fund and support digital connectivity and give it a strategy for resources, purpose and goals.

The audacious goal: Get all of KC digitally connected, 'whatever it takes'

Remember the heady days of Google Fiber’s big Kansas City launch some eight years ago? A resolution now before the City Council wants Kansas City to dream big again. The pandemic has exposed the city’s digital gaps and the need to get everyone connected.

Digital creativity fosters child dreams of musical food parties, chess tourneys in PJs

It came to this. The teachers’ live-streamed faces flickered in the grid of a virtual conference call but none of the students who’d been invited to join them were there. Not a one. This was not a problem of lack of interest, but the difficulties of digital technology. The teachers did not give up.

Plan A, Plan B, Plan . . . Z? Schools trying to predict future that's impossible to know

It almost goes without saying, but Recommendation No. 1 in the state’s recent advice to school districts on how to run summer school is: “Maximum flexibility.” And with the uncertain horizon before them, expect the same come the start of the next school year in August.

Digital Inclusion Fund to offer $250,000 in grants to help KC area's crusade against digital divide

KC Digital Drive celebrates the "doers striving to change the community"

Workshop to help families get internet, low-cost TV streaming

KC Beacon: KC Goes Tech provides training — and earning potential — to the people

Chromebooks to go: KC Library lending free computers, hot spots

Apply now: Help is here for Internet bills, computer needs, but funds may be limited

Relief fund can help many households get internet access

With new Internet to Go checkouts, KC Library addresses a critical need

KC's 'golden moment' for digital equity: You can help 'get it done.'

The audacious goal: Get all of KC digitally connected, 'whatever it takes'

Digital creativity fosters child dreams of musical food parties, chess tourneys in PJs

Plan A, Plan B, Plan . . . Z? Schools trying to predict future that's impossible to know

More families getting connected online; local and statewide resources grow

Seven lessons for curing the digital divide: Federal Reserve Bank of KC drops some knowledge

Kansas City hosts Digital Inclusion Summit