iSchool Capstone

The Red Wheelbarrow Digital Literacy Project

Project tags:

community engagement & outreach

equity & inclusion

information literacy

Project poster

Digital illiteracy persists among adults in the coastal Mississippi area the Jackson-George Regional Library System serves. Adults without computer skills cannot use the Internet to gain employment, access government services, or find healthcare providers. Their lack of basic computer skills is a barrier to accessing government programs that can help them. JGRLS does not have the human power to meet this need. A digital literacy program that trains volunteers to teach digital literacy skils to adults using the public computers and broadband capacity at JGRLS' 8 branches is warranted. The project will lay the groundwork for a digital literacy council.

Project participants:

DL Womble

MLIS Online

Video Link :

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