W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center Telehub: Hope Reborn was presented by Harrison May, Senior Solution Architect for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE), at the 2017 Gigabit City Summit (GCS17).

1. W.E.B. Dubois Learning Center
Telehub
HOPE REBORN

2. Challenge
Today’s digital revolution has created a caste system
ü Creators
ü Maintainers
ü Consumers
Community lacking technology skills;
relegation to consumer caste

3. Resulting Issues
u Community lacking access to digital technology
u Fragmentized community
✔ Busing consequence à eliminated community pride with neighborhood
schools
✔ Civil right success à minimized impact of neighborhood Churches
u Community commitment for change
u Investment Scarcity
✔ Technology aptitude
✔ Lack Program funding

4. “We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds
are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and
white”
--W.E.B, Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

5. Community Challenge
Take charge of our own destiny
Too important
To Leave to others to solve

6. Inactivity is not an Option
u Passionate Believers for Change
u Fervor of the civil rights movement
u Community thirst for technology sated
u Innovation from unexpected source
u Stop talking. Watcher watch; the doers, do.
u Create program to entice community to be motivated:.
ü Learning
ü Sharing
ü Partnerships
u Worthy of giving:
ü Heart
ü Time

7. Next Steps
We live our lives in years, swift, flying, transient
years. We hold the possible future in our hands
but not by wish and will, only by thought, plan,
knowledge, and organization.
— W.E.B DuBois (1933)

8. Vision
Skilled community contributing to
digital technology innovation

9. Community Organization
You organize people around projects.
Projects that people need and/or want
The best way to acquire knowledge is to be around it
Leon Dixon – cofounder, W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
1973
People don’t join organizations – people join people

10. Next Steps
✔ Create program to entice community to be motivated, educated and
involved .
✔ Entice community to work together.
§ Partnerships
§ Sharing
§ Focused
✔ Acquire
§ Funding to make a difference
§ Passion of the community
§ Commitment for change
§ Calling to make a difference
✔ Expound digital technology in the community.

11. Technology Immersion

12. Objectives
Skills Development
✔ Critical Thinking
Development
✔ Technical aptitude
✔ Imaginative Innovation
✔ Career Options
Protect Digital Future
✔ Technology Access
✔ Technology Enabled
✔ Technology Exposure
✔ Technology Skills

13. Develop New Ways to Learn
ü Train the Trainer
ü Each one, Teach one

14. Next Steps: Develop Curriculum
ü Technical aptitude
Operating Systems Principals
Nix
Microsoft
Network
ü Robotics
ü Coding Principe
C++
Python
ü Creative
• Digital Media
• Graphic Arts
• Radio
ü Business application
Project Management
ü Critical Thinking
Must
ü Career Paths
§ Cyber Security
§ Technicians
§ Scientists
§ Programmers
§ Project Management

15. Plant the seeds
Entice Others to Share
ü Knowledge
ü Time
ü Heart

16. Goals
u Teach and learn in innovative ways.
u Skill set to create successful entrepreneurs.
u Confidence and qualifications to obtain career.
u Talent to be self sufficient.
u Become innovative thinkers and game changers.
u Creating our own opportunities to pursue ….

17. PROJECTS

18. Telehub 2000 - 2003

19. DuBois Telehub Provides Access,
Resources and Training
u Youth
u Community
u Seniors

20. Learning Center’s Wiring Program
Horizontal Wiring
Vertical Wiring
Terminations
Wiring Class/Lab

21. Volunteers are the
foundation
Engineers
Mathematicians
Accountants
IT Professionals
Architects
Attorneys
Educators
Business Professionals
Parents
College Students
Concerned Citizens
Learning Center Volunteers

22. UNI Connect Neighbors
2016 -

24. Training Classes

25. Wireless Installation Crew (Lincoln Prep)

26. Wireless Installation Crew (Gregg Tabernacle AME)

27. Wireless Installation Crew (Historic Lincoln Building)

28. Center City LAN

29. Ivanhoe Neighborhood LAN