Tech Day

Gabriel Fishman posted on May 15, 2008 - 12:21pm no comments

As part of my VISTA work I organized Boston Tech Day, an event where volunteers from business and academia and students from the Boston Public Schools TechBoston program provided free one-on-one computer repair services and computer training to low-income Boston residents. We received funding for three events from MassIMPACT, a non-profit interested in digital inclusion work and from WinnDevelopment, a major Boston-based developer. The first Boston Tech Day occurred on Saturday, May 10th, at Ben Franklin Institute of Technology and was a huge success. You can read more about it on our website: http://www.cstowifi.org/doku.php?id=techday

Or you can read the South End News article covering the event at: http://www.mysouthend.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=74483

We have two more Tech Days planned. They will take place in Roxbury and Dorchester over the summer.

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research on computer use and child outcomes

Gabriel Fishman posted on June 13, 2008 - 9:05pm no comments

One topic that we've been discussing at length recently is the wisdom of efforts such as One Laptop Per Child, which aim to greatly expand home computer use among low-income children, especially in the third world. It has been taken as fact that computer access is beneficial to children, but is this really so? …read more

Tech Day

Gabriel Fishman posted on May 15, 2008 - 12:21pm no comments

As part of my VISTA work I organized Boston Tech Day, an event where volunteers from business and academia and students from the Boston Public Schools TechBoston program provided free one-on-one computer repair services and computer training to low-income Boston residents. …read more

Almost Famous

Gabriel Fishman posted on January 3, 2008 - 8:11pm 1 comment

My project was featured in a front-page article in the South End News, a local weekly newspaper. Although the article mangles a few little facts, overall it is very good. …read more

MuniWireless and Community Wireless

Gabriel Fishman posted on November 7, 2007 - 6:11pm 2 comments

In late October, I flew out to San Jose to attend the MuniWireless '07 Silicon Valley conference. As a VISTA I run a project that provides free wireless Internet access to low-income residents of subsidized housing in Boston's South End neighborhood. …read more

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