What a powerful Community Connects event we had with our incredible partners at @familyservicesa ! Our partners shared their programs, grew their networks, and created alignments; and our panel tackled one of the most important topics in digital inclusion efforts: mentorships and internships as key pathways for building digital skills. We know up-skilling through experience, exposure, and engagement is critical to improved economic mobility

Our Broadband Issue Team had the opportunity to share San Antonio and Bexar County's priorities with state representatives and highlight the amazing work happening to bridge the digital divide in our community.

We were excited to be speaking again at Total Telecom #ConnectedAmerica, on the power of public-private partnerships in driving digital opportunity!

This week is hashtag#DigitalInclusion Week! Join us in our mission to bridge the digital divide across our community. Digital inclusion is vital for educational attainment, job opportunities, and essential services. Together, we are making a difference- one connection at a time. hashtag#DIW2024

🚀 Exciting news! In partnership with the amazing team at Community Information Now (CINow), we’ve just launched the Digital Investment Data Tool on the SA Digital Connects website! Built in partnership, informed by partners, and designed for partners (you see the theme right?!) this resource provides hyper-local data and insights to support critical digital inclusion work done by organizations and advocates across the community. https://lnkd.in/grWbk8QX

Day 4 hashtag#DIW2024: Watch Charito Lincoln, CRCM, Lean SSGB with Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. and our very own Rhia Pape, MBA, MA on KENS 5 Great Day SA sharing more about National Digital Inclusion Week and highlighting our collaborative efforts to bridge the digital divide in San Antonio and Bexar County. 🎥✨ https://www.kens5.com/video/entertainment/television/great-day-sa/273-7719ad38-788c-4a50-b5c5-2cabd23348cd

This event just made our week! 🎉 We are thankful to SADC's newest community organization partner, Code Equity, who are... kids teaching kids how to code! 💥 When they reached out to SADC and said “We want to be able to teach more classes and serve more students,” we were in! Code Equity is utilizing the 100 laptops donated by @human_i_t to offer more coding classes and support @ellaaustincommunitycenter in their digital skills programming. Our private-public-community partnership model is the

Thank you UP Partnership! We are beyond excited for our friends at Good Samaritan Community Services to house AT&T's first Connected Learning Center in San Antonio (and south Tx!) and look forward to the many opportunities this initiative brings to the community and neighbors they serve. Also a big shoutout to our partners at Compudopt for providing laptops to students participating in the digital skills program at the center!! Great work all around! Go Team!! 🙌🤩

ow can cities get creative about leveraging federal infrastructure funding to close stubborn broadband gaps? Join the Local Infrastructure Hub Tech and Innovation Center on July 24 for a discussion about using mesh wireless networks in multi-family housing with Tony Schloss and Adeyinka O. Ogunlegan, Esq. from EducationSuperHighway, Rhia Pape, MBA, MA of San Antonio Digital Connect, and Danny Fuchs of HR&A Advisors.