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Making Mecklenburg County the most digitally equitable community in America!
The Center for Digital Equity is a backbone organization for a collective impact strategy emphasizing ecosystem collaboration and resident co-creation of solutions to close the digital divide and foster digital equity in the Charlotte metro. The main vehicles to accomplish that work is the Community Council, a group of over 100 residents, nonprofit, corporate, municipal, and education partners invested in and shaping digital equity and inclusion work, and our Digital Navigators service. The Digital Navigators service is a first of its kind public-private partnership with Mecklenburg County where county residents can call 311 and express interest in speaking with a Digital Navigator to get information on low and no-cost internet, technological devices, digital literacy training, and device troubleshooting at no cost to them.
- A first of its kind earned device program nationally deployed in Meclenbury County Detention Facilities
- Established in 2011 through an endowment from the Knight Foundation at the Queens University of Charlotte's Knight School of Communication.
- Working with E-2-D and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library to distribute 20,000 laptops to community residents for free in 2022-2023
