KEYSPOT: 100k hours of computer training to 10k Philadelphians in last year, planning for end of federal funding [VIDEO]

More than 70 computer training centers in Philadelphia have been given new life and helped familiarize more than 10,000 low-income residents with digital technology in the past year.
Next up for the KEYSPOT initiative, backed by the Freedom Rings Partnership, is to figure out what to do when the $18 million initial federal stimulus funding runs out a year from now. It’s something the partnership is putting as among its top priorities says Joanne Ferroni, among the Drexel University-based coordinators.
“We are working with sites and managing partners to come up with a collective vision for digital literacy and then support individual partners to sustain their own efforts,” said Ferroni. “We are collectively working toward a broad-based funding strategy that will support Philadelphia becoming the most digitally literate and digitally engaged city in the country.”

This appeared on the Technically Philly website on August 3, 2012.

Read the entire article here: http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/08/03/keyspot-100k-hours-of-computer-training-to-10k-participants-in-last-year-planning-for-end-of-federal-funding-video#more-16526

And yes, that's my annoying voice at the beginning of the video.