The Southern University System has partnered with the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) in an effort to enhance the accessibility of technology for each of the five campuses.
A major initiative of the project is to provide public computer accessibility to the communities surrounding the different campuses of the Southern University system and targeted parishes where the services will be needed.
“Today’s declaration represents a significant leap forward in our advocacy of equal access of new technologies to underserved and rural audiences across the nation,” said Alliance for Digital Equality Chairman Julius H. Hollis.
“There’s a great strength in partnerships and we could not have selected a better ally to help extended our reach into America’s most needed communities,” Hollis said.
The Alliance of Digital Equality is a non-profit advocacy organization that serves to facilitate and ensure equal access to technology to 30 community based centers and almost 200,000 residents that live in underserved and rural communities.
The community centers will give clientele accessibility to work with free high-speed broadband Internet, Microsoft office and also help youth in ACT and LEAP testing.
These community centers will be funded through the Southern University system but will be dispersed throughout the centers in the specified underserved and rural areas.
“The Alliance of Digital Equality assisted the Southern University System with the money and proposal for the grant,” said Christopher J. Rogers, the director for Technology Services of Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
The ADE is aimed at upholding the Southern University System and the Alliance’s mission of empowering, educating and connecting communities.
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SU system enters technology partnership
September 10, 2009
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