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Digital Opportunity Network℠

Creating Change Together

A growing national network of community organizations are working together to expand device ownership for everyone, regardless of their circumstances.

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The Digital Opportunity Network is made up of a wide array of people and organizations who share the goal of eliminating the technology gap.

At 1,500 members and growing, the Network includes individuals, nonprofit organizations, government, schools, and corporations. All are unified by the shared belief that everyone who needs a computer should have one. It’s a national approach that yields local results.

Why a Network Approach?

A network approach offers the ability to achieve impact through collective action by harnessing the capacities of members. The Digital Opportunity Network℠ creates opportunities for a diversity of actors to work together to eliminate the technology gap. Feedback from Digitunity’s community verifies that the need for devices and support, and the myriad challenges that go along with that, are significant issues for practitioners and communities.

The Power of a Network

The Digital Opportunity Network℠ works to create the channels and pathways to achieve digital opportunity in device access and related areas by coordinating and attracting actors of all sizes to do more together.

Digitunity is its steward. The Network harnesses the influence, voices, and capacities of members to contribute to the network’s shared purpose of eliminating the technology gap.

Working together to achieve digital equity

Learn from Digital Opportunity Network℠ community member Christy Householter, Computers for the Blind, about their work supporting people with disabilities. It’s just one example of the many types of mission and impact the almost 1500 members are having in communities across the country.

Digital Opportunity Network℠ member Christy Householter, Executive Director of Computers for the Blind

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Networks bridge the interests, impact, and reach of their memberships to have an impact that is greater than the sum of its parts. A network’s strength lies in its membership, which brings diverse expertise, capacities, and resources to bear in pursuit of a shared purpose through participative processes and structures.

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Interest Areas

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