$1.5 Million for Community-Based Technology
Georgia College and the Digital Innovation Group announced in December a $1.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant establishes the Milledgeville Community Connections: Digital Bridges…Bringing People Together project. The initiative will facilitate a community owned effort to develop and implement ways technologies can improve residents' lives at home, school and work.
"Milledgeville leaders recognize that citizens' use of digital technologies will be the key to moving Milledgeville/Baldwin County from an economy based on state jobs to a workforce that is competitive in the knowledge economy," says Beverly Blake, Knight Program Director for Columbus, Macon and Milledgeville. "It is indeed exciting that Knight's smallest community has the opportunity to lead the charge in creating a community ownership model."
President Dorothy Leland agrees. "Knowledge and information from across the globe that is readily accessible through the Internet is a key to our community's education and economic growth," she says. "I am pleased that Georgia College will be able to encourage our community's connection to the world through this exciting and innovative project."