Digital Readiness

Libraries Easing

the Empowerment Divide

OLA Superconference
Toronto ON
February 1, 2017
<librarian.net/talks/ola17>

Slides and Notes

Resources

• Draft horses bring fiber optics to remote locations
• Overview of the fastest fiber broadband plans in Singapore
• A brief history of the first electric company in Toronto by Chris Bateman
• Winning the public by Samuel Macaw Kennedy
• History of Edison power in Los Angeles
• Ontario Hydro And Rural Electrification In Old Ontario, 1911-1958: Policies And Issues
• Pedagogies of the Unimpressed: Re-educating Women for the Modern Energy Regime, 1900-1940
• Digital Divides 2015 a presentation by Pew Internet's Lee Rainie
• Pew report on digital readiness for e-learning
• Yahoo password breach news article
• TaxProf on the IRS vulnerability
• Pew Libraries at the Crossroads report (pdf), PBS article about that report, my tweet response
• LibrariesResist Twitter account
• Did Amazon just replace the public library? (because they opened a bookstore)
• Digital Technology Adoption in Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities (pdf)
• Digital Inclusion and Meaningful Broadband Adoption Initiatives from the Benton Foundation
• How to Help Someoen Use a Computer by Phil Agre

Credits

• Background image by Construction of the Bloor Viaduct page, City of Toronto
• Toronto Power Generating Station images
• Alberta rural electrification images
• Noun Project icons: skydiver by Juan Pablo Bravo; skills By Rflor; Hacker by Gan Khoon Lay; Education By Pete Fecteau, NZ; Black hat hacker by Luis Prado; Information by To Uyen; Blocked Laptop by Pumpkin Juice; chat By Becris