Stories What the Knight Cities Challenge is looking for in Charlotte A new competition is looking for proposals from Charlotte citizens who have been dreaming about new ways to build community, but don’t really know what to do with them.
Stories Library launches mobile Wi-Fi hotspot rental program The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library launched a program to lend mobile Wi-Fi hotspots to help the 19 percent of Charlotte residents who lack home Internet access.
Stories Civic hacking keeps the heart of the community pounding Code for Charlotte celebrated the National Day of Civic Hacking with a weekend Hack-a-Thon on June 3-4, 2016. Starting with an analog night, the event had community members kicking it old school.
Stories Two Charlotte Fellows use technology to address social justice Work by the Pew Research Center shows that one third of the American population sees the Internet as irrelevant to their lives, and one third has difficulty navigating the net. Two Charlotte residents want to change all that.
Stories On Beatties Ford Road, a librarian teaches digital literacy in Vietnamese Cam Tu Diep is a librarian at the Beatties Ford Road Regional Branch of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. At the end of the day, she tutors the Vietnamese speaking community.
Stories EveryoneOn launches itself into the challenge of connecting Charlotte online The leader of a program designed to eliminate the digital divide says Charlotte is not keeping up.
Stories Charlotte names first digital inclusion project manager Bruce Clark (left), Charlotte’s first digital inclusion project manager, speaks with Tom Warshauer, community engagement manager for the city, at a March 2015 digital literacy conference at the Knight School of Communication at Queens. Bruce Clark has been hired as […]
Stories Queens students create online tools to help seniors master smartphones Students in the Knight School of Communication at Queens are launching a set of online educational tools designed to help senior citizens learn new skills on their smartphones. Five of the school’s top students in communication, digital media, or journalism […]
Stories NoDa uses many communication tools to preserve unique identity Over the last several years, NoDa residents and businesses have been taking advantage of digital tools to more effectively communicate to people within the neighborhood as well as to the greater Charlotte community. North Davidson, more commonly called NoDa, is […]
Stories For families, what’s the line between online security and the real world? A security expert who devotes his professional career to investigating online crime says families often complicate the process of staying safe on the Internet. If you wouldn’t talk about something with your neighbor, why would you post it online? “Digital […]
Stories Discover Charlotte history, virtually Search engines simplify the process of researching local and city history. But they raise the question of how we know what is authentic — what is fact and what is fiction? Thomas Cole, a Charlotte historian and librarian in the […]
Stories ‘Flash philanthropy’ experiment uses digital media to engage community The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation surprised students at a recent Charlotte graduation ceremony when it asked them to use digital media to decide the recipient of a significant foundation gift. As Eric Newton, senior advisor to the […]
