Growing up in a small village in Murang’a County, Kenya, Ruth Njeri had nearly no access to the digital world. Today, she is the lead engineer of the Tanda Community Network in Kibera.

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There is a generational digital divide, with older adults often lacking the training to use digital tools safely.
To help combat this divide, our Mexico chapter organized a series of short courses to help older adults build knowledge, skills, and confidence.

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As the Internet becomes increasingly prominent in our lives, it has also begun to play a larger role in the movies we watch.

More and more, in disaster movies, there is a key indicator that something is really wrong and bad things are about to happen: The Internet is down. 

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Digital footprints are trails of data that people leave behind as they use the Internet. This data contributes to a digital portrait of who we are—one that is more public than many people realize. 

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