Leveraging Open Data for Community Benefit: Next Steps
This planning grant, “Leveraging Open Data for Community Benefit”, focused on exploring the potential of open data to assist library staff in planning library services and programs to address the needs of their communities. While the end product of this grant has changed in response to what was…
Winter 2022 class– Misinformation Escape Room Directed Research Group
Winter 2022 Tuesdays 2:30-3:20 (online) 2 credits; CR/NC The Misinformation escape room Directed Research Group (DRG) is designed as a hands-on class for students to participate directly in an iSchool research project. This project started in 2020 and the priorities for the 2021-2022 academic …
Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and policy implications from a technology access and distribution program for low-income job seekers
Presentation at TPRC 49 (Policy Research Conference on Communications, Information and the Internet) Researchers from the University of Washington worked with the City of Seattle and Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) to investigate how physically distant technology access and assistance could …
Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and policy implications from a technology access and distribution program for low-income job seekers
Lower income households, significantly less likely to have a computer or internet at home, were disproportionately impacted by the historic job losses in the Spring of 2020. In response, a Seattle-based workforce development nonprofit in partnership with the City of Seattle launched a program called…
“Help is really necessary”: Case study of a technology distribution program for low-income job seekers
development for low-income job seekers but these were often neglected parts of programs and services. COVID-19 made them essential components and drove the rapid development and implementation of digital access efforts. Digital Bridge, created in partnership with local government and employment services…
Digital Bridge: Providing digital access to low-income job seekers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The digital divide has long been recognized as a factor contributing to the economic marginalization of low-income communities, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC communities).1–7 The pandemic transformed the digital divide from a long-simmering issue to an immediate…
Launching collaborative research to produce a model for teaching civic education for the Arctic
“Arctic sea ice minimum, Sept. 15 2020” by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Jason Young, Nadine Fabbi (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies), and Michelle Koutnik (Earth and Space Sciences) were awarded an NSF Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) grant funding the …
Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North
Launching collaborative research to produce a model for teaching civic education for the circumpolar North
Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and policy implications from a technology access and distribution program for low-income job seekers
In the United States, lower income households are significantly less likely to have a computer or internet at home and were disproportionately impacted by the historic job losses in the Spring of 2020. In response, a Seattle-based workforce development nonprofit in partnership with the City of Seattle…
Researchers receive IMLS grants supporting community work
Photo by SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 2.0 This summer, TASCHA researchers have received several competitive grants funding various projects. From archive work to misinformation education, TASCHA is thrilled that our researchers will be able to use this funding to further social change in our local …