Tessie Guillermo's blog

On this day last week I was at New Roots Farm, a community owned and run patch of acreage incongruously located at a major intersection cutting through a low-income neighborhood, that produces fresh produce for residents of City Heights, in San Diego.

AND, tomorrow as TCE board chair I get to host First Lady Michelle Obama and fantastic community leaders as she kicks off "Let's Move" in California!!  Pics to come . . .

ZeroDivide was on-site today for “America’s Digital Inclusion Summit," where the FCC released six key recommendations to expand broadband adoption, excerpted from the much-anticipated and historic National Broadband Plan. After months of intensive public input, the full plan will be released on March 17th.

Laura Efurd talks with NTEN ED Holly Ross about ZD's tech policy session at 2010 conference.

Text4baby is a free service that sends health tips in the form of text
messages to registered users timed to match with mom's pregnancy stage
and later, baby's age.

ZeroDivide and colleagues talk data and metrics with Sonal Shah, Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

ZeroDivide has a commitment in its funding strategy to support and promote uses of technology for what we term “e-democracy"

While ZD as a foundation doesn't fund social services directly, many of our grantees and partners are being devastated by the state budget deficit.

For the last few months leading to the general presidential election
the ZeroDivide website has featured non-profit organizations dedicated
to increasing civic engagement

Two seemingly unrelated news items in the this week illustrate the criticality of access to high-speed broadband for increased civic participation by all Americans.