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Photos by Nathaniel Mullen

AMP partners with the Open Technology Institute to launch Digital Stewards Program

Communication is a fundamental human right. The Digital Stewards Program is an effort to actualize that right at the neighborhood-level in Detroit. This 10-week training, already underway, prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition featured in Colorlines Magazine and MSNBC

As a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, Allied Media Projects has been supporting the construction of community wireless networks in several Detroit neighborhoods.  Last week, this work was highlighted in a great article by Jamilah King for Colorlines Magazine.
Photo by Nina Bianchi

Media from the last DiscoTech

Here's some rad media from the last DiscoTech ("Discovering Technology" fair) of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, which was held back on April 15 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).

Photo by Shar McLeod

Report-back from SXSW Interactive 2012

"When they built the interstate highways through Detroit, they divided neighborhoods and paved a path to the suburbs. When we look at the digital divide, we see the information superhighway is doing the same thing: setting communities apart and giving the more affluent a path to abandon the city. For all of the Internet’s power to unite those of us who use it, how can we ensure that it does not divide us from those who don’t?"

Free Events on Technology and Creative Communities (Feb 25-26)

Allied Media Projects is a co-presenter of two events as part of the openFrameworks worldwide developers conference in Detroit. We are hosting these events in partnership with Emergence Media, rootoftwo, Artserve Michigan, Work Department, MOCAD, and the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.