DELN: DIGITAL EQUITY LEARNING NETWORK
serving King County, WA
The Digital Equity Learning Network (DELN) is a cross-sector coalition that works to advance digital equity and inclusion in King County. DELN members represent organizations, institutions, and agencies that provide culturally appropriate services to communities, including the most disadvantaged and marginalized across King County. Our membership also includes practitioners in public, private, and nonprofit institutions who are creating the policies and funding streams to ensure sustained digital equity advancements.
Our Mission
To leverage collective knowledge and resources to advocate for digital equity, share best practices, and to build system capacity towards inclusion in the digital world.
Our Vision
Every person in King County has access to and skills necessary to use technology to fully participate and thrive in modern society.
What We Do
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Advocacy: We advocate for the funding and resources needed to advance digital equity in our region;
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Capacity Building: We offer learning and professional development opportunities for practitioners supporting digital literacy and navigation to improve their practice;
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Resource Creation: We develop and curate up-to-date resources to support organizational readiness for digital equity;
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Network Development: We convene practitioners across the digital access, device and digital literacy ecosystem to strengthen their partnerships, share resources and build a network that supports digital inclusion and digital equity
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NDIA Definitions:
Digital Equity
The condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy and economy.
Digital Inclusion
The activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities, including the most disadvantaged, have access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies