Our Goals
- Help high poverty communities undertake sustained systemic digital equity efforts in support of financial and economic inclusion.
- Help states to form and support statewide networks of community teams committed to digital equity initiatives for economic inclusion.
- Infuse digital equity issues and strategies into educator preparation.
- Provide research and evaluation to identify best practices in digital equity that lead to educational and economic impacts.
- Provide technical assistance to digital equity resource providers, assisting them to collaborate in promoting their respective resources, making it easier for low and moderate income communities to undertake integrated remedies to the digital divide.
- Advise grantmakers, reinvestment executives and other digital equity investors on why and how to design efforts that are systemic so they have significant impacts on educational and economic opportunity.
Who We Are
The Collaborative, a New Hampshire based federally tax-exempt nonprofit corporation, was co-founded in 2013 as the Digital Opportunity Consortium, by co-chairs Dr. Robert McLaughlin and Dr. Paul Resta. Reflecting the compelling need to speak to potential investors with one voice about why and how to approach digital equity investments and initiatives systemically, we refashioned the consortium as the National Collaborative for Digital Equity. We are headquartered in Weare, New Hampshire.
Our Board of Directors
Dr. Paul Resta, President
Susan Ballard, Vice-President
Dr. Robert McLaughlin, Secretary-Treasurer
Kim Carter
Dr. Mary Ford
Dr. Paul Resta, President
Susan Ballard, Vice-President
Dr. Robert McLaughlin, Secretary-Treasurer
Kim Carter
Dr. Mary Ford
Our Leadership Council
- Samantha Becker, principal research scientist, Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington
- Dr. Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Dr. Jeremy Roschelle, Digital Promise
- Skip Stahl, Co-Director, National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials, CAST
- Lisa Trisciani, Field Sales Vice-President, Connection Public Sector Solutions