Highlights of a Jan. 11, 2017 Digital Charlotte meeting at Johnson C. Smith University, focusing on how North Carolina organizations are addressing the digital divide.

In December 2016, an incident involving a North Carolina man at a pizza restaurant in Washington, DC, showed a violent and unintended consequence of fake news.

Imagine the wildest science fair you could possibly attend, a place where you can see everything from stop-motion clay animation to night vision systems on new BMWs. Now imagine that you can talk to the people who invent and work with these tools daily.

A new year for digital inclusion is beginning for a national nonprofit technology leadership organization. Two new fellows—Caché Owens and Margo Scurry–are taking steps towards social justice in Charlotte.

Several North Carolina organizations participated in the 2016 BroadbandUSA “Community Connectivity Initiative” workshop in Washington, DC, positioning Charlotte as a potential pilot city for upcoming projects.

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.

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.

Do you think people can change the future of Charlotte in 48 hours?

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.