by Erin Melton | Jun 25, 2020 | Digital Infrastructure, Community Education and Awareness, University Research Capacity
The UMKC School of Law, KC Legal Hackers and KC Digital Drive collaborated to organize and host a continuing legal education (CLE). This webinar was part of the 2020 Legal Tech Speaker Series, sponsored by Denton’s, Spencer Fane and Husch Blackwell. The focus of the...
by Erin Melton | Sep 1, 2019 | Health Innovation Team, Community Education and Awareness
Humana is a national health insurance company with an office based in Kansas City, Missouri. Humana launched its first Bold Goal Markets in 2015, and Kansas City was added to that list in 2017. The Bold Goal is to make the population in a given market 20% healthier by...
by Erin Melton | Aug 10, 2019 | Community Education and Awareness, Healthcare Technology
The Center for Practical Bioethics (CPB) and Cerner Corporation collaborated to present “Defining Ethical Guidelines for Augmented Intelligence” on August 9, 2019. KC Digital Drive representatives were invited to attend. From 8 am to 5 pm, attendees listened to...
by Erin Melton | Jun 20, 2018 | Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access, Digital Skills Training, Code for KC
Jacob Wagner, Director of Urban Studies at UMKC and co-founder of The Center for Neighborhoods, spoke at Code for KC’s Learn Night on June 18, 2018. The Center for Neighborhoods is a UMKC resource that works to build the capacity of Kansas City neighborhoods. Jacob...
by Erin Melton | Apr 25, 2018 | Community Education and Awareness, Digital Art, Code for KC
Steve Noll, former Executive Director, and Brent Schondelmeyer, board member, of the Jackson County Historical Society (JCHS), spoke at Code for KC’s Learn Night on April 23, 2018. They shared information about how the Wilborn Collection came to be, what it...
by Katherine Hambrick | Sep 6, 2017 | Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access
Our meeting kicked off this month with two Hire KC Youth Digital Scholars, Noah Yener and Eleanor Nash. The report they’ve worked on for the last 8 weeks of their internship was to identify and evaluate Community Learning Centers, such as Brush Creek Community Center,...
