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Creating a Digital Bridge: Lessons and policy implications from a technology access and distribution program for low-income job seekers

Update Stacey Wedlake and Yvette Iribe Ramirez on October 6, 2021

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 …

First months of Creating the Digital Bridge

Update Stacey Wedlake and Yvette Iribe Ramirez on October 30, 2020

The pandemic has forced even more of our lives to move online. In Seattle, much like the rest of the country, lower income households are significantly less likely to have a computer or internet at home and have lower than average levels of computer-based digital skills. Physical distancing …