<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Here's another just released report of value to libraries,</div><div>cultural institutions, communities and individuals in NM and elsewhere.</div><div>RL</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From: Janell Muhammad <<a href="mailto:JMuhammad@imls.gov">JMuhammad@imls.gov</a>><br>Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:20 AM<br>Subject: Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities<br><br>Dear Colleague,<br><br>I am pleased to let you know that the first phase of our work on digital<br>inclusion has come to an end and that, with your help, we have published the<br>“Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities.” </div><div><br></div><div>Together with the University of Washington Information School and the International<br>City/County Management Association, we provided a platform for libraries,<br>community based organizations and the many publics they serve – to come<br>together and share a vision for digitally inclusive communities. Thank you<br>for the important role you played in this effort and for sharing your<br>expertise about the needs and complexities of local communities. Your<br>perspective helped to ground this work with sound principles and goals that<br>set a foundation for the future.<br><br>As you know this work was undertaken in response to the National Broadband<br>Plan, which identified the rising costs of digital exclusion in American<br>society. It is clear that public officials have new roles to play to help<br>their communities assess their current capabilities, and to work across<br>institutional boundaries to create, implement and evaluate plans for<br>broadband adoption and use. We hope that a common set of principles, will<br>help business, anchor institutions (schools, hospitals, libraries), public<br>safety and cultural institutions, to work together to fully and effectively<br>realize the value of a digitally inclusive community.<br><br>During the next few months we will be holding a series of community forums<br>to further develop and test the proposed framework and continue to develop<br>plans for implementation and outreach. We hope that the work we have done<br>together will inspire the development of new tools to help community leaders<br>make strategic investments in public access technology to meet the public’s<br>ever changing information needs.<br><br>You remain an important part of this process and we hope that you will<br>disseminate the proposed framework among your colleagues, use your blog or<br>other communications networks to talk about your participation in the<br>process and continue to be in touch with us with your thoughts and insights.<br><br>Here are links to the materials:<br><br>§ Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A brief guide to the proposed<br>framework <a href="http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkBrief.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkBrief.pdf</a><br>(provides a high level summary of the proposed framework)<br><br>§ Building Digitally Inclusive Communities: A guide to the proposed<br>framework <a href="http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkGuide.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkGuide.pdf</a><br><br>§ Proposed Framework for Digitally Inclusive Communities: Final Report<br><a href="http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkReport.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/pdf/DIC-FrameworkReport.pdf</a> (Provides in-depth details<br>on development of the proposed framework)<br><br>Press release <a href="http://www.imls.gov/news/2011/061711.shtm">http://www.imls.gov/news/2011/061711.shtm</a><br><br><br>Sincerely,<br>Susan H. Hildreth<br></div><br><br><div>
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