Access Charlotte will improve and size up to provide free Spectrum Internet and Advanced Wi-Fi to over 5,000 households and 15 community spaces. Using funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, the city will implement the two-year program to pay for in-home internet, as well as allocate dollars toward efforts related to digital navigators.
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Jamar Davis: Access Charlotte
started in 2020 during the Height of the pandemic. Folks
didn't have access to hardware, Didn't have access to proper
internet. Students were using Their phone to be able to access
and do schoolwork. Access Charlotte kind of felt that need
to touch base into some of those Who live in the affordable
housing communities. To be able To access hardware, digital
online resources, and internet. My name is Jamar Davis. I'm the
Access Charlotte coordinator for The Innovation and Technology
department. My role primarily is Around managing the needs of the
Access Charlotte program. Being A part of this team has been
essential and seeing how Intricate and important data is
to this work that we do under Access Charlotte. As we've gone
into phase two of this program, Starting off from phase one,
where there was access to public Wi-Fi, phase two really puts us
into a space of touching over 60 Properties versus phase one was
14. And now we're going from 1,800 households to about 8,000
households to impact. Thanks to Our partners over to center for
digital equity. They have revved Up their workforce to provide
Access Charlotte digital Navigators to appoint them
directly under Access Charlotte To connect the residents to
hardware, digital resources and Others small technical support
opportunities. Thanks to our partners at the
Mecklenburg County Library. They're open to provide
opportunities of learning. Goodwill is also providing
opportunities of learning for Folks to be able to connect and
elevate to improve their status In terms of work using E2D which
is a nonprofit company around Eliminating digital divide by
connecting residents to Computers and other hardware.
Also through 311. They can call 311 as simply as if they were to
call to schedule trash pickup, They can call and ask for a
digital navigator. I consider Myself lucky. My mom came from
IT. For me it I had internet at 13 years old. So when the
numbers came back around, folks Not having access to internet
and not even having access to
Hardware, and there being a
space for that here in the city. I've had friends whose parents
had benefited from this Opportunity, just from me just
spreading the word around Meck Tech Connect and providing
hardware. Or just me saying if You're a parent, if your parent,
or if your cousin or your niece Lives in these areas, guess what
— internet's coming. It feels Wonderful. It does feel to get
to that point of knowing that Internet especially internet is
almost a utility, rather than Something of luxury.
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