The South Florida Digital Alliance is a membership organization that facilitates collaboration among our anchor government, healthcare, education and private enterprise to pool their technology buying power, enhance their business transactions, programs and educational resources to create positive community transformation. Members include Miami-Dade College, University of Miami, Barry University, the City of Miami, the Miami Science Museum, South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Nova Southeastern University and many others.
We encourage you to join us today and improve the capacity of your broadband network, reduce your technology costs, and open the door to collaboration with other forward thinking people and organizations to create technology and program synergies that you never thought were possible. This is the South Florida Digital Alliance call to action to join our grass roots to elevate our community through access to technology and training.
Goals:
• Connect all residents of South Florida to the global digital society and economy.
• Enhance educational opportunities, job skills, productivity and quality of life through the adoption of appropriate technologies.
• Create economic opportunities by attracting new industries with a technology-empowered workforce and a connected community.
• Increase collaboration throughout our community via high speed internet connectivity.
• Elevate South Florida to a “Best Connected Community” in the US within 5 years through increased adoption of network technology and broadband connectivity.
• Encourage deployment of next generation computing technology for our entire community, especially for anchor institutions to enable them to better serve our community.
• Facilitate the recycling and distribution of computer and telecommunications technologies to better equip our underserved communities.
Programs
The Alliance partners with Elevate Miami, the Alliance for Aging and Miami-Dade County Housing and others to provide technology training for working age adults and senior citizens. Graduates are able to earn refurbished computers and Internet access for one year by completing basic computer training. We also partner with Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ and their Learn Idea Navigate Knowledge (LINK) program to provide refurbished computers to students in underserved communities. We help increase our community’s access to medical services using the latest advancements in telemedicine, by working with healthcare partners to put medical kiosks in underserved locations. One of our goals is to create a digital map of South Florida to inform citizens where they can access technology training and Internet access at low or no cost.
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