by William Crumpler | Mar 10, 2023 | Health Innovation Team
Our Healthy Kansas City East Side (OHKCE) was a community initiative led by the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) aimed at increasing the reach of COVID vaccinations and health services within vulnerable Kansas City communities. The project began in June of...
by KC Digital Drive | Feb 7, 2023 | Computers in the Home, Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access, Digital Skills Training, Digital Inclusion
The Mid-America Regional Council announced on February 1, 2023 that the Advisory Board for the KC Regional COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund has an open call for community non-profit organizations and libraries to submit requests for funding to help area adult...
by KC Digital Drive | Feb 6, 2023 | Health Innovation Team, Healthcare Technology
John Fitzpatrick has been involved with KC Digital Drive since its founding in 2012, and has been instrumental in leading the long-standing convenings of the Kansas City region’s Health Innovation Team. He will be expanding and leading the organization’s projects at...
by William Crumpler | Feb 6, 2023 | Digital Inclusion
In the spring of 2022, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) launched its Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) initiative, which involved a series of national conversations with families and community organizations to...
by Leslie Scott | Jan 30, 2023 | Digital Infrastructure, Digital Inclusion
The state of Kansas kicked off its digital equity priorities at the Kansas Broadband Summit, which included a newly minted Kansas Broadband Advisory Board commissioned by the Kansas Office of Broadband Development (OBD) to help steer the state in creating a digital...
