Community Technology and Digital Equity

Community Technology NY (CTNY) offers an alternative vision of technology in which under-resourced communities and neighborhoods have direct control over their digital communications, allowing them to be owners and maintainers, not just consumers, of that technology. CTNY has critical expertise in facilitation, data gathering, analysis, strategic planning, and training. CTNY’s mission is to facilitate and support healthy, resilient, and sustainable community digital ecosystems, rooted in digital equity and digital justice. CTNY creates multiple engagement avenues for any coalition or the community, training residents to be Digital Stewards who maintain and sustain their community’s network. We facilitate landscape analysis, needs assessments, and technical training, to identify the needs of the community. And we work with Digital Stewards to identify viable and sustainable solutions to address those gaps and provide wraparound and support services. Building, training, and empowering coalitions in these communities is an essential foundational activity.