My name is April KirkHart, and I am the Special Projects Coordinator for The Children¹s Partnership, a national research and advocacy nonprofit organization focusing on children's issues in the United States. Please visit our website for more information on our organization at: http://www.childrenspartnership.org
The following is a recent announcement about our newly developed "Digital Opportunity for America's Youth State Fact Sheets (http://www.techpolicybank.org/tpb/statefactsheets ) which will be of particular interest to the members of this community as well as those in the child advocacy community. Please read on below and feel free to share the materials. If there is interest in a discussion group, I can always start one on the DDN website. -- April KirkHart, MSW Special Projects Coordinator The Children's Partnership 1351 3rd St. Promenade, Suite 206 Santa Monica, CA 90401 Phone: (310) 260-1220 Fax: (310) 260-1921 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.childrenspartnership.org http://www.techpolicybank.org **************************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Dear Community Leaders and Policy-Makers, Technology is quickly becoming a necessary tool for young people to grow up healthy, educated, and productive in our country. Being prepared with the skills to use computers and the Internet has been shown to create important opportunities for children such as improving academic achievement, developing workforce skills for the future, and improving health. However, some states are doing a better job than others in preparing their residents, and in particular youth, with the resources to participate effectively in today¹s technology-driven world. Are the young people in your state technologically ready? To find out whether young people in your state are prepared, The Children¹s Partnership has developed state fact sheets, at http://www.techpolicybank.org/tpb/statefactsheets , for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, which provide key data such as the rate of workers employed in high-tech firms and the percentage of homes that have computer, Internet, and broadband access. The fact sheets complement a report recently released by The Children¹s Partnership entitled, Measuring Digital Opportunity for America¹s Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here, at http://www.techpolicybank.org/tpb/report/doms . The report showed that Information and Communications Technology positively impacts the lives of youth, particularly around four critical areas of their lives health, education, workforce development, and civic participation. It also identified a troubling digital gap, showing that many youth miss out on these opportunities. We hope that these state fact sheets along with the report will assist you in making sure your state¹s children are not left behind in the technology age. Our staff would be pleased to talk with you about any advocacy you are doing or might undertake in your state to promote digital opportunity for youth. And we will very much value your feedback or suggestions about these ideas and materials. Sincerely, Wendy Lazarus & Laurie Lipper Founders and Co-Presidents The Children¹s Partnership http://www.childrenspartnership.org <http://www.childrenspartnership.org/> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
