I am excited to share the news that my colleagues, Malana Krongelb, Jie Jiang, and I have an extended version of our Digital Equity Leadership Lab (DELL) case study published in the new issue of The Journal of Community Informatics, which my Co-Editor-In-Chief Peter Johnson and I put online earlier today. I also hope the case…
Author: Colin Rhinesmith
Announcing the Launch of Digital Equity Research Center
I am incredibly grateful to everyone who’s supported me over these past few months since leaving my position at Simmons University, including my colleagues at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry where I continue to keep affiliations. Today, I am incredibly privileged to be able to…
Digital Equity Leadership Lab Case Study Published
I’m super excited to announce that the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation published my case study of their Digital Equity Leadership Lab (DELL) today. The case study began with the following key research question: How might DELL serve as a community-based leadership training model to develop the next wave of digital equity leaders? Through my interviews with…
Defining “Adoption of Broadband” in the Infrastructure Bill
It was thrilling to see that the definition of “meaningful broadband adoption” from my 2016 Benton Foundation report appeared in the final version of H.R. 3684, the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.” This bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden on November 15, 2021. There are many people to thank…
Joining the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
The thread throughout my career over the past twenty years, beginning as a young scholar in graduate school at Emerson College and proceeding shortly thereafter as a community media and technology practitioner at Cambridge Community Television, has been a focus on equity in access to information and communication technology (ICT) particularly for vulnerable populations. This…
New Issue of JoCI Published
The new issue (Vol 17) of The Journal of Community Informatics is now online! There are several excellent peer-reviewed articles, including the following: A study of community informatics and resilience in India during the COVID-19 pandemic; The role of public libraries in supporting digital inclusion in Sweden; and A comparative study of digital equity plans…
Six-City Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Fellowship Launched
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 8, 2021 Contact: Shaun Glaze (they/them) Research Director shaun@blackbrillianceresearch.com Contact: Colin Rhinesmith (he/him) Benton Senior Faculty Research Fellow crhinesmith@benton.org Six-City Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Fellowship Launched First-of-its-kind fellowship targeting digital inequities The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, Community Informatics Lab at Simmons University, and Black Brilliance Research Project (BBR)…
TLA District 3 Keynote Presentation
It was wonderful to join the Texas Library Association’s District 3 virtual meeting today to present my research with Susan Kennedy on digital equity ecosystems published by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society in November 2020. Here is a link to my keynote presentation, which was titled “Sustaining Digital Equity Ecosystems in the New…
19th Annual CIRN Conference: 8-12 November 2021
Registration is open for the 19th Annual Community Informatics Research Network Conference, “Communities, Technology and This Moment“: 8-12 November 2021 co-sponsored by Monash University and Simmons University. REGISTRATION Please see the registration information: https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/programs-and-registration?authuser=0 PROGRAM Browse the virtual conference program at https://www.conftool.net/prato2021/sessions.php. Note that all times are in UTC/GMT. The theme of the 2021 conference,…
Speakers Announced for ASIS&T Research Symposium
The Planning Committee for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP) are excited to share the speakers and schedule for the joint SIG-SI and SIG-IEP Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice on Friday,…