A Digital Literacy Corps offering college scholarships & stipends!

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Dan Kent
A Digital Literacy Corps offering college scholarships & stipends!
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A Digital Literacy Corps offering college scholarships & stipends!
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More than 20,000,000 Americans are offline and those that are digitally excluded are being relegated to a 21st Century underclass. The Digital Literacy Corps is like a 21st Century Peace Corps where high school and college students learn job skills, earn stipend money, and are awarded scholarships for teaching computer and Internet skills in their communities after school. Let's mobilize some of the more than 20,000,000 high school and college students to work with libraries, community centers, elementary schools, and nonprofits and reduce the digital divide by teaching computer and Internet skills to the underserved. The Digital Literacy Corps teaches students leadership, job skills, and life skills through service learning. It will be funded through grants and by a micro-donations website that enables donations to target specific communities. Net Literacy recommended that a Digital Literacy Corps be created to reduce the digital divide, and the FCC called me up to discuss it and then cited our recommendation in the National Broadband Plan presented to Congress. The Digital Literacy Corps is a proven and scalable model based upon the successes enjoyed by Net Literacy (www.NetLiteracy.org) – a student-managed digital inclusion and digital literacy nonprofit. Please read more in the section below, visit Net Literacy to see our verifiable record of success, and thanks for considering voting for this initiative.
I founded Net Literacy, a digital inclusion and digital literacy nonprofit in middle school together with my friends and today, 3500 student volunteers have donated more than 20,000 computers and increased computer access to over 170,000 individuals. Students rule at Net Literacy and comprise 50% of the Board of Directors and perform all of the volunteering. Students have learned leadership, job skills, and life skills while earning $100,000s in college scholarships and serving their communities. Our "youth-empowered" model has been cited by the European Union’s Study on Digital Inclusion, we have partnered with Internet associations representing 270,000 Internet companies on six continents, and two American Presidents have honored our accomplishments. Net Literacy’s proven program is ready to be scaled and engage and empower the digital generation in every community and in every state. Currently, I’m a college senior and serve as Net Literacy’s volunteer president and executive director. For more information, please visit Net Literacy, Digital Literacy, or Google “Net Literacy”