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Broadband Awareness and Adoption

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About Our Project:

 

The Broadband Awareness and Adoption project of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF)

proposes to increase adoption of broadband in vulnerable and low-income communities in Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Orange County, San Diego, and the Inland Empire. CETF has identified key populations with low broadband adoption rates and developed partnerships with organizations uniquely qualified to reach out to each of these populations. Working with these partners, CETF plans to coordinate a targeted media campaign, bolstered by outreach from trusted ambassadors and grassroots mobilization, to reach 5 million multi-lingual residents. CETF intends to provide digital literacy training for more than 678,000 low-income individuals, including more than 300,000 youth. The project expects to increase household adoption of broadband in these high-priority, low-income communities by more than 133,000 households.

 

This project is funded through a two-year grant of$7,251,295 from the U.S Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

 

 

 


Our Mission:

 

The Broadband Awareness and Adoption project also proposes to:

  • Focus on the unemployed, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latinos, other ethnic and rural residents, and people with disabilities, whose technology usage lags significantly behind the rest of the state.
  •  Expand the capacity of the United Way’s 2-1-1 telephone line, which provides information about available community services. With this grant, the United Way will be able to help individuals seeking computer training or assistance finding broadband options, including referring callers to local public computer center resources.
  • Upgrade the California’s One-e-App one-stop online screening and enrollment system that helps families apply for a range of health care and social service programs.

 


Project Partners:

 

  • Access Now
  • Center of Accessible Technology
  • The Center to Promote Healthcare Access, Inc.
  • Chicana Latina Foundation
  • Dewey Square Group
  • Latino Community Foundation
  • Radio Bilingue
  • United Way of California

 


Contact: 

 

Luis   Arteaga

California Emerging Technology Fund

The Hearst Building

5 Third Street, Suite 520

San Francisco, CA 94103-3206

luis.arteaga@cetfund.org

 

 

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