Wolske organizes workshop on digital equity

Martin Wolske
Martin Wolske, Teaching Associate Professor

Martin Wolske, interim director of the iSchool's Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), is organizing a workshop on digital equity for Net Inclusion 2018, which will be held on April 17-19 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is working in collaboration with Angela Siefer, executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and former CDI senior research associate.
 
The workshop, "New Ways of Thinking about Digital Equity," will be held as a preconference event on April 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It will address new ways of thinking about digital equity in response to presentations by researchers who analyze information access, information poverty, and feminist ethics of care. Participants will learn about a variety of methodological approaches to ensuring information equity and will contribute to future investigations.

Speakers will include iSchool Assistant Professor Emily Knox; CDI Research Affiliate Barbara Jones, former director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom; Colin Rhinesmith (PhD '14), assistant professor of library and information science at Simmons College; and CM Winters (MS '96), assistant professor of library science at the City Colleges of Chicago-Malcom X.

Early registration for this preconference event ends March 1. Visit the website for more details.

Established in 2013, CDI fosters inclusive and sustainable societies through research, teaching, and public engagement about information and communication technologies and their impacts on communities, organizations, and governments.

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