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Libraries Lead the Way in Digital Inclusion: April Coalition Meeting Recap
This month’s Kansas City Coalition meeting celebrated the vital role that libraries play in digital inclusion, showcasing partnerships that enhance digital access and skills training. Highlights include the Kansas City libraries’ diverse initiatives, Scholar Smarts’ dynamic after-school programs, and an AT&T device distribution opportunity requiring collaborative coordination. Upcoming activities and innovative courses in digital and financial literacy for communities highlight the combined efforts in forwarding digital inclusion in Kansas City.
Empowering College Students Through Device Access
Devices are essential to everyday life, especially for students earning a degree. Donnelly College, an affordable and accessible Catholic college based in Kansas City, KS, serves students who are often the first in their families to pursue higher education, many on financial aid and Pell Grants. For these students, access to a personal device isn’t a given. Through the DLX Device Access Program in Kansas, Donnelly is making sure their students have the technology, connectivity, and support they need to succeed in school and beyond.
National Insights, Local Impact: Highlights from the March Coalition for Digital Inclusion Meeting
The March 2026 meeting of the Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion a panel of local attendees of the Net Inclusion conference who reported back on their takeaways from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance’s annual event, such as emerging trends in digital health, device strategy, and rural resources. The session also featured informative updates on local device recycling milestones from PCs for People and expanded youth coding cohorts from WeCode KC.
From Youth Robotics to Senior Digital Literacy and Free IT Careers: Organizations Expand Access Across Kansas City
The final third Friday KC Coalition for Digital Inclusion meeting brought together a full room of organizations tackling the digital divide from every angle — from high schoolers in STEM in Kansas City, Missouri, to seniors navigating doctor’s portals in Kansas City, Kansas to adults breaking into tech careers at zero cost. Beginning in March, coalition meetings will shift back to once a month on the first Friday.
I Accept the Terms & Condition
Existing Terms of Use policies are long and full of complex legalese, making individuals vulnerable to usage of their data that violates their intent and is potentially weaponized against them. This is a recap of a webinar that introduced MyTerms, a new global standard from IEEE, that aims to give individuals control of their data back to individuals by empowering them to create their own Terms of Use contracts for their data for companies to abide by.
Empowering Wyandotte: Kansas Grant Gives a Future for Digital Equity at the Vernon Center
During the 2026 MLK Day celebration, community leaders and advocates showed up in support of Vernon Multipurpose Center’s kickoff of their ADOPT 2.0 Devices and Public WiFi program. Participants learned about how to receive a free computer, and community partners are encouraged to reach out and learn more on how to connect their clients.
Bridging the Digital Divide, One Connection at a Time: Fall 2025 Digital Ambassador Program Highlights
This fall, the Digital Life Exchange (DLX) continued its Digital Ambassador initiative—demonstrating once again that personalized, community-rooted support can make a powerful difference in closing the digital divide.
Advancing Health-Centered Digital Inclusion: Highlights from the January KC Coalition for Digital Inclusion Meeting
The January 2026 meeting of the Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion explored the critical intersection of healthcare and digital access. Featuring presentations from KC Digital Drive, Heartland Wellness Connection, and Care Beyond the Boulevard, the session highlighted how digital navigation is being embedded into clinical and social care to address health disparities and the social drivers of health.
How San Antonio Used a Digital Divide Simulation to Align Community Leaders
In September 2025, SA Digital Connects, Methodist Healthcare Ministries, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), and digitalLIFT partnered with KC Digital Drive to host a Digital Divide Simulation in San Antonio, Texas. The immersive experience convened more than 60 civic, healthcare, nonprofit, philanthropic, and institutional leaders from across San Antonio and Bexar County to explore how digital exclusion compounds barriers across healthcare, workforce development, education, and public services.
Digital Inclusion Is Civic Infrastructure: What 2025 Taught Us
In 2025, digital inclusion stopped being about programs alone. It became unmistakably clear that it functions as civic infrastructure—essential for accessing health care, education, work, and public systems, and dependent on coordination, trust, and sustained human support to work at scale.