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Alliance for Digital Equality News
- Buscan 'conectar'
Mundo Hispanico Comunidad Por Linda Carolina Pérez Julius Hollis, el presidente de la Alianza para la Igualdad Digital (ADE, por sus siglas en inglés), explicó en entrevista cu&aa... - Technology group stresses digital equality at the Capitol
Tallahassee Democrat By Will Brown With the Legislature looking for money from all corners of the state, the Alliance for Digital Equality presented a report Wednesday detailing the detriment to less ... - National Leaders To Discuss Global Digital Revolution And Underserved Communities
Atlanta Daily World Special to the Daily World The Internet is poised to forever change the face of equal opportunity.Across the country, inner-city and low-income communities are encountering limited... - Guest Commentary
Atlanta Daily World Guest Commentary By: Julius H. Hollis Alliance For Digital Equality Broadband and wireless have revolutionized the way our world communicates. We surf the World Wide Web from... - New Obama Plan Seeks Affordable Broadband Service for All US Homes
Voice of America President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have set aside more than $7 billion to build broadband Internet networks to bring high speed computer access to every U.S. home. Policy ma... - Broadband Funding Hopefuls Pair Up in Search of Stimulus Dollars
Wall Street JournalIt may be another month — at least — before officials at the Commerce and Agriculture Departments provide grant proposal details for companies and communities hoping to ... - Boost broadband opportunity for all
BY PAUL BRIDGEWATER (Opinion Editorial) Detroit, with its double-digit unemployment and an uncertain future, might be in its worst economic state in recent history. There's a lower supply of jobs, an ... - Group Backs Subsidies For Universal Broadband
WWJ Newsradio Detroit The Atlanta, Ga.-based Alliance for Digital Equality brought its push for universal, affordable broadband deployment to Detroit Tuesday.In its policy statement, the group says br... - Connecting for a healthier America
The State (Opinion Editorial) By DEBBIE CHATMAN BRYANT A healthy America is increasingly a connected America. High-speed broadband connections enable significant improvements in the quality, availabi... - Educational Opportunities Can Be Realized Through Broadband
Houston African-American News (Opinion Editorial) America is home to some of the greatest educational resources in the world. We have the power to churn out professionals – doctors, lawyers, tea... - Affordable Broadband: Empowering Communities Across the Digital Divide
Each day, millions of Americans log on to the Internet to check their e-mail, research information for school or work, connect with friends, download music, or maybe even watch YouTube videos. People ... - Jane Pearman Joins Relational Technology Solutions from Avaya
Business Wire CHARLESTON, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Relational Technology Solutions (RTS), one of the largest independent technology leasing and technology solutions providers in North America, today ann... - Art Collins Will Deliver Keynote Address At FAMUs 2009 Summer Commencement
The Weekly Challenger TALLAHASSEE - Art Collins, a Florida A&M University (FAMU) alumnus, will serve as keynote speaker at the 2009 summer commencement. The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday... - City launches new push for broadband
Crain\'s Chicago Business Chicago is angling for about $100 million in federal stimulus money to build a high-speed Internet network that would reach some of the city\'s poorest neighborhoods.City off... - ADE Miami Digital Empowerment Council Member, Susan McDowell to be honored at Caribbean American Heritage Month Celebration
Advertising & Marketing Agency President to be honored at Caribbean American Heritage Month Celebration South Florida Caribbean News MIAMI – Circle of One Marketing President and CEO, Suzan ... - John Marks: Broad access to broadband is essential
The Tallahassee Democrat John Marks My View There\'s a news story nearly every day about the impact the national economic situation is having on Tallahassee. All reports indicate that there won\'t be ... - Alliance for Digital Equality Presents in Congressman Clyburn South Carolina District
During the weekends of June 19 and June 26, 2009, the Alliance for Digital Equality presented at the Community Leaders Institute in Allendale and Aiken, South Carolina. The purpose of this insti... - DeKalb hires former ADE Broadband Expert for high-ranking position
DeKalb hires ex-Atlanta mayoral spokesman for high-ranking job Atlanta Journal-Constitution By TY TAGAMI Jabari Simama, who was director of communications for former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, will ... - Gaining ground in the East End
Business Lexington By Susan Baniak Lexington, KY - With the launch of the final phase of the Hope VI-funded Bluegrass-Aspendale redevelopment and the Lyric Theater groundbreaking earlier this month, l... - ADE CONGRATULATES BOARD MEMBER, DR. DAVID RIVERS ON RE-ELECTION AS COMMISSIONER OF CHARLESTON S.C. WATER SYSTEM
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, tuesday, AUGUST 18, 2009 — Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) Chairman Julius Hollis today offered congratulations to ADE Board Member, Dr. David Rivers following the announce... - Strategic alliance created to bring broadband to minority communities
SpeedMatters.org Partners for Digital Equality (PDE), The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and The National Hispanic University (NHU), a HACU member higher learning institution... - Mayor John Marks: Phones bridging digital divide
Tallahassee Democrat By John Marks Today\'s smart phones are changing the way we use our wireless devices. With the introduction of each new device, more exciting and useful features emerge.On today\'... - Southern University and ADE works to close the digital gap
Southern University is partnering with a non-profit group to try to bring computers to an under served area. News 2\'s Dana Hackett gets answers on how this will help close the digital gap. Clic... - Alliance For Digital Equality⢠Congratulates Ambassador Nicole Avant on her appointment as the 13th United states Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Thursday, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 — Alliance for Digital Equality™ (ADE) Chairman Julius Hollis offered congratulations to his colleague, business woman, philanthropist, and a... - Alliance for Digital Equality, AT&T and Qualcomm Enable âLearning Without Wallsâ
Bringing 21st Century Wireless Education Technology Tools to North Clayton Middle School COLLEGE PARK, Ga — 10-01-2009 — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading develo... - FCC Broadband Roadtrip to South Carolina
BroadbandCensus.com The Federal Communications Commission is going to South Carolina on Monday, October 5, and Tuesday, October 6. Today, Today, the FCC hosts a consumer forum on broadband at Ravenel ... - ADE Founder: Broadband Roll-Out That Excludes Communities is Prescription for Disaster
Panelists hope to bridge digital divide through public/private partnerships By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, October 6, 2009Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) founder Julius Hollis di... - North Clayton Middle students go wireless
Clayton News Daily By Curt Yeomans For nearly 50 students at North Clayton Middle School, paper and pencil no longer plays a major role in their everyday learning experience.The school is participatin... - Massey\'s final Bank of America task a big one
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Russell Grantham When he agreed to step in as Bank of America’s chairman earlier this year, Walter Massey probably wasn’t expecting the job to turn out ... - Alliance for Digital Equality Urges FCC to Protect Minorities and Low Income in Net Neutrality Regulations
TMCnet By Susan J. Campbell The possibilities that widespread broadband availability can create for minority and low-income communities could be limited if net neutrality regulations become too strict... - An Open Letter to our Constituents
On October 15th, seventy-two members of Congress, including members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), sent a timely and pointed letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressing ... - Broadband Opportunity Coalition letter calls for balanced regulation
SpeedMatters.org In a letter to the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, members of the Broadband Opportunity Coalition (BBOC) - a group that includes the Urban League, the League of United Latin American... - Summit Speakers Want More Broadband Access For Minorities, Criticize Net Neutrality
BroadbandCensus.com By Winter Casey WASHINGTON, November 18, 2009 - The opening speaker of a summit focused on improving broadband penetration to minority and low-income areas of the country, and crit... - Cohen Presses for Action to Bridge America\'s Digital Divide
CWA Newsletter With Internet speeds and access in most of the developed world leaving the United States in the dust, America\'s low-income and minority households are particularly at risk of being lef... - Tutor.com Participates in the 2009 Minority Broadband Summit
Tutor.com Blog Chances are that you are reading this blog entry on a computer that uses a high speed “broadband” connection to the Internet. Broadband connections make it so ea... - Former Miami Mayor Heads to Alliance for Digital Equality
BroadbandBreakfast.comATLANTA, Ga., January 14, 2010 – Former Miami Mayor Manuel Diaz on Monday was elected vice chairman of the Alliance for Digital Equality.“Due to his extensive experie... - ADE Miami Digital Empowerment Council Member, Suzan McDowell wins 11th Annual Thelma Gibson Award of Excellence for Corporation Of The Year Return to News
Circle of One Marketing wins 11th Annual Thelma Gibson Award of Excellence for Corporation Of The Year South Florida Caribbean News MIAMI – Circle of One Marketing is thrilled to have been named... - Comments of The Alliance for Digital Equality to The FCC
In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet & Broadband Industry Practices: Comments of The Alliance for Digital Equality to The FCC The Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) is a non-profi... - Telemedicine coming to the region
San Diego Union Tribune By EARLEXIA NORWOOD The nation’s attention continues to be focused on health care reform, a complex issue with many facets – from the cost of care to who gets insur... - Donated computers narrow technological gap for Miami-Dade schools
The Miami HeraldBY JENNA FARMER The Alliance for Digital Equality donated 200 computers to Miami Northwestern High , Maya Angelou Elementary and families belonging to the Overtown Youth Center. As s... - Lighting Up The Lines On The Administration\'s Internet Plan
Huffington Post By Julius H. HollisJulius H. Hollis is the CEO and Chairman of the Alliance for Digital EqualityNext month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to present it... - The New Poor Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
The New York TimesBy PETER S. GOODMANBUENA PARK, Calif. — Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Am... - Helping To Bridge The Digital Divide
Free computers give families access to Internet, more opportunitiesBY STARLA VAUGHNS CHERINFLORIDA COURIERIn an effort to narrow the digital divide, a non-profit consumer advocacy organization recentl... - Hollis: Digital Equality Will Help Boost the Economy
March 2, 2010, 12:16 p.m. By Julius Hollis - Special to Roll Call - During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, James Carville told us all, “It’s the economy, stupid.” M... - The Internet and Our Future
Black Web 2.0by Angelahttp://www.blackweb20.com/2010/02/27/the-internet-our-future/Editors Note: The following guest post is written by Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of Dr Martin Luther King J... - Diaz & Franklin: Obamaâs March Madness Delight
Roll Call By Manny Diaz and Shirley Franklin Special to Roll Call After a tough first year for President Barack Obama, it looks as if the nation’s 44th president is finally hitting his stride. M... - Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz Calls for Greater Broadband Access to All
Miami Times Blog By Kyle Munzenrieder As the former President of the US Conference of Mayors, Miami\'s ex-mayor Manny Diaz was able to squeeze his way into national issues in a way few of his predece... - McDonald\'s(R) Former CMO William Lamar Inducted Into Advertising Hall of Fame(R)
American Advertising Federation Honors Marketer for Lifetime AchievementPRNewswireNEW YORK, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- William \"Bill\" Lamar, former Chief Marketing Officer for McDonald\'s USA, was hon... - Alliance for Digital Equality Plans April Confab
BlackAmericaWeb.com By: Jackie Jones A Pew Institute and American Life Project study last year reported that African-Americans are the most avid users of wireless Internet, and their use of the mobile... - ADE moving forward in 2010
Speedmatters Blog The Alliance for Digital Equality has appointed former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin as Senior Adviser and announced another Digital Empowerment Summit.Franklin will be responsible ... - Shirley Franklin Helps Close the Broadband Divide
The Root The former Atlanta mayor promotes private-public partnerships to bring underserved communities up to speed. By: Kris BroughtonFormer Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has taken on a new role ... - Radio star Tom Joyner starts recruiting for DPS
Detroit Free Press BY PEGGY WALSH-SARNECKIAdd nationally syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner\'s name after Bill Cosby\'s on the list of celebrities signing on to help Detroit Public Schools recrui... - Is Learning Without Walls The School Of The Future?
BigThink.comBy Kris BroughtonI spoke with one of Atlanta’s former mayors last week about the new advocacy organization she had just joined. Shirley Franklin, the first black woman to run the cit... - The Politics Of Broadband Access
Politic365 By Kris Broughton In a lot of ways, the recently released executive summary of the National Broadband Plan, like the health care bill that recently became law, boils down to “who gets... - Former Mayor Franklin shaping future leaders
Atlanta Journal Constitution By Henry Unger The trademark flower on her lapel has been replaced by a pin. The large City Hall office has given way to a smaller one at Spelman College. And the 18-hour ... - The JET Agenda - Jobs, Education and Technology
Huffington PostBy Julius HollisAs most Americans know, our economy has experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Last Friday, President Obama traveled to North Carolina to visi... - Broadband summit at NJIT aims to be a âlaunchpadâ for expansion in Newark
The Star-Ledger By Venuri Siriwardane High-profile business leaders and policymakers will brainstorm ways to improve internet access in the state’s urban and low-income communities during a broa... - Actor and activist Hill Harper urges African-Americans to go online
The Grio (Video)By Aysha HussainA major broadband summit will take place in Newark today, to discuss and brainstorm ways to improve Internet access in New Jersey\'s urban and low-income communities. T... - Digital Empowerment Summit Held In Newark, NJ
Ms. Boss International Blog I had the opportunity to attend The Digital Empowerment Summit yesterday in Newark, NJ. It was powerful. The guest line up was like the who\'s who on the red carpet. The li... - Digital Equality.
Networking Newarker BlogI attended a Summit held at NJIT last week: the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) Summit. I missed a few parts of initial star studded, politico-packed segment (sigh), but it... - Diverse Voices Unite for Digital Equality
NextGenWeb Blog Posted by Shana Glickfield The Alliance for Digital Equality, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring equal access to technology in underserved communities, assembled some of their leadi... - The Digital Empowerment Summit: Closing the Economic Divide.
Glocally Newark The Alliance for Digital Equality \"strives to act as a bridge between policymakers in Washington and underserved communities on forming legislation that helps to bring new technology,... - 74 Democrats defy Obama man\'s net neut plans
Register By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco Seventy-four Democratic members of the US House of Representatives have sided with telcos in the ongoing dust-up over the Federal Communications Commission e... - Legislators Oppose FCC\'s Broadband Reclassification
Sci-Tech Today By Jennifer LeClaire Democratic legislators are opposing the Federal Communications Commission\'s Third Way plan to reclassify the transmission of data as a telecom service that can be ... - NEW LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCED BY THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Walter E. Massey Named President; Elissa Tenny Appointed to Newly Created Provost PositionChicago - Cary McMillan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ... - Launch Into Digital Revolution Grounded Under \"Third Way\" Plan
Huffington PostBy Julius HollisI was reminded Sunday by \"Meet the Press\" moderator David Gregory of the combined effort made in the late 1950s between the U.S. Government and the private sector to c... - Former Mayor Shirley Franklin Speaks at Blogging While Brown Conference in Washington, DC
Atlanta Examiner.com Over the weekend, our nation\'s capitol hosted the 3rd Annual Blogging While Brown Conference, which was created to share resources, offer support, spread awareness and educ... - 66 projects to expand broadband connections in rural and poor areas across the country.
Jonathan Kantrowitz Blog By Jonathan KantrowitzPresident Obama announced yesterday new government investments in 66 projects to expand broadband connections in rural and poor areas across the country.... - FCC plan shuts out many from broadband
Chicago Sun-Times BY VICTORIA M. DEFRANCESCO SOTO The latest version of Apple\'s highly acclaimed iPhone has recently hit stores, and if you\'ve missed this announcement, you have likely been on vacat... - Northwestern University professor explains why FCC plan will hinder broadband access
From the DSN Newswire (Alliance for Digital Equality)Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and Alliance for Digital Equality Board Member, Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Ph.D discusses the digita... - Alliance for Digital Equality Goes to Grassroots on Broadband Issues
Although the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) is very active at advocating for policies to help bridge the digital divide on a national level, they also have a comprehensive grassroots ... - Affordable Internet for all
Miami Herald BY MANNY DIAZ www.alliancefordigitalequality.orgAccording to some media reports, approximately 700 million people watched the World Cup finals held in South Africa just over a week ago. H... - City Confidence
Memphis Flyer By Mary Cashiola It was storytime at the Center City Commission\'s annual luncheon, today at the Peabody Hotel.\"Memphis and Atlanta can because they think they can,\" she said. \"We jus... - Diaz: Donât Disrupt Broadband Expansion with Unnecessary Regulation
NextGenWeb Most agree there is still more to be done to ensure all Americans have access to Broadband Internet. But forcing unneeded regulations on the Internet community is not the way to accomplish ... - Broadband Internet will wire the next generation
Atlanta Journal Constitution By Winston Johnson In September 2009 President Barack Obama laid out “A Strategy for American Innovation.” Now the administration has kicked off a series of fo... - ADE Computer donation held at Carver Middle School
Nonprofit Collaborates with Partnership for Los Angeles Schools to Contribute Much Needed Computers to School in South Central LA The Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE), a non-partisan, non-pro... - MANNY DIAZ: Internet accesible para todos
El Nuevo Herald By MANNY DIAZ Según algunos informes de prensa, aproximadamente 700 millones de personas vieron la final de la Copa Mundial que se jugó en Sudáfrica hace poco m&aa... - Free Press Targets Poor Blacks and Women for Net Neutrality Campaign
Blackvoicenews.com By Yaounde Olu (NNPA) - In a bid to ensure Net Neutrality, the Free Press has commissioned the Harmony Institute to develop a strategy that will target poor, rural African- American... - Congress steps up to the plate to weigh in on Net Neutrality
Huffington Post By Julius Hollis Last week officials announced that net neutrality talks have broken down between the Federal Communications Commission, major Internet service providers and other key ... - Broadband Internet A Necessity, Not a Luxury
Charleston ChronicleBy Julius H. HollisPublished on Friday, January 15, 2010, 4:49 aBroadband Internet access is no longer a luxury for most Americans. Instead, it has become a necessity that enables ... - Tallahassee receives $1.2 million federal broadband network grant
The Florida Independent By Brett Ader Tallahassee has been awarded a $1.2 million federal grant to help expand broadband services in low-income neighborhoods, a distinction announced by Vice President... - Charting the Political Landscape
Womenetics By Jan Jaben-Eilon Snapshot: Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto is an assistant professor of political science in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwest...