Hi everyone,
As you may remember, last month DDN partnered with Meetup.com to allow DDN members to use their website to schedule community meetups on the digital divide. We selected March 23 as the day we want to encourage groups to have their first meeting. As this date is just over a week away, I wanted to send out a reminder about the Meetup program.
DDN members are encouraged to host and attend local meetups in their community. A meetup is a great way to get to meet other community members interested in bridging the digital divide. They don't require a formal agenda: just a time and place where people can get together and talk about digital divide issues in their community. To facilitate this process, we have this website to organize community meetings:
http://ddn.meetup.com
If you go here, you'll be able to see if anyone has scheduled a meetup in your community. If not, we encourage you to host one! A meetup can take place wherever you want: a library, a CTC, a coffee shop. Ideally, we'd like to see communities host their first meetup on March 23, but you can do it any time you want. We currently have nine meetup groups around the world; I'd love it if we can reach 20 meetups by the end of the month. So please start one in your community and help us reach that goal!
If you're organizing a meetup in your community, please post an email to the list and let us know when and where it will be. This information will also be on the meetup website, but an email will make it easier for people to learn about your event. Just give your email a title like "DDN Meetup: Boston" so people will know immediately if it relates to them. I would also encourage you to post your meetup on other email lists and forums where you might find other people in your community interested in the digital divide, such as craigslist.org, omidyar.net, etc.
I'll be organizing a DDN meetup for next week here in Boston; I'll post the details soon. Whether you'd like to participate in Boston or elsewhere, please visit http://ddn.meetup.com, set up an account and get involved in a local meetup.
thanks, andy
-- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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.
