Generation Dayton: Digital Inclusion Summit April 2022

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Join us this April as we examine the digital divide, the gap between those with access to modern information and communications technology and those without. How does this gap impact our community? How is it affecting our nation? 

You are invited for lunch as we welcome Bill Callahan, Co-Founder of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance as our keynote speaker. 

Donation Drive: We’re asking attendees to consider bringing some needed items for YWCA Dayton’s women and children’s shelters. Needed items include: Socks (children/women), underwear (children/women), kitchen utensils, diapers (any size), wipes and baby formula, and body wash/lotion. 

Sponsored by:  ATT

Bill Callahan is president of the Connect Your Community Institute, a Cleveland-based organization engaged in research, public advocacy, and strategic innovation to advance a digital justice in northeast Ohio. He also serves as a senior policy advisor for the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, the National Coalition of Community Digital Inclusion Advocates and Practitioners, which he helped found in 2015 and served as Research and Policy Director until 2020. Callahan has been a leader in local, statewide, and national efforts toward more equitable digital access and literacy since 1996. 

Organized and managed the West Side Community Computer Center, one of Cleveland's earliest neighborhood computer training and ownership programs (1997-2002).

Helped create (2000) and served as director (2003-2008) of Cleveland Digital Vision, a citywide advocacy coalition, which raised millions of dollars to support neighborhood technology access and training programs. 

Developed and directed OneCommunity's Connect Your Community Project, one of the largest broadband adoption initiatives funded by the U.S. Commerce Department's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, which provided training and/ or home broadband assistance to more than 30,000 unconnected residents of Cleveland, Detroit, and six other communities in Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Florida (2008-2013).

Callahan has worked as a community organizing and development professional in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio since 1970.