Aspiration will develop and deliver eAdvocacy trainings across the state on the use of email and Web sites for advocacy and community organizing. A comprehensive program will be developed to support the implementation and adoption of eAdvocacy technology within 4 strategically chosen organizations in California working on social change efforts in underserved communities. The project has two main components: 1) eAdvocacy adoption through mentoring and comprehensive support; 2) Emerging technologies curriculum development and training.

To create a free community Web based portal that; 1) links all aspects of digital Hip hop culture; 2) provides technological, production, and promotional resources to young, Hip hop artists; and 3) creates a safe space where Hip hop producers, performers, and enthusiasts can communicate and network.

Bookshare.org's mission is to break down the barriers to literacy for those with limited vision or other disabilities. Bookshare.org is proposing to take their model of outreach and implementation and test its method by expanding Bookshare.org to schools in the Central Valley, and continue its expansion in Santa Clara to ensure complete saturation. This grant will support this goal through two main methods: - an updated web interface, one that reflects current needs and wishes of present Bookshare.org users; and - a streamlined direct mentoring approach to teachers and schools to ensure adoption and ease of use and implementation.

To develop a community based Wi-Fi project targeting residents of the Westside Court Housing project. The project will attempt to provide Wireless Internet access, Internet training, and localized community content for residents. 100 families will be targeted to participate in basic and enhanced computer, multimedia, and online training courses. Local youth will be trained as neighborhood computer instructors and to troubleshoot the wireless Network and remotely support home users. Training program graduates will earn wireless-ready refurbished computers for their families.

To achieve information and communications technology policies at the state level that address the technology needs of California's underserved communities and to build the capacity of organizations and individuals in underserved communities to participate in advocacy on ICT policy issues.

To educate California decision-makers and civic leaders about the essential role information and communications technology (ICT) plays in the lives of young people in order to promote public policies which will increase access to and use of technology among children and young people, particularly in underserved communities.

To document the lessons learned from the East Palo Alto Digital Village (EPADV) experience, including the identification of community-based strategies to pursue policies that promote the model, and to assist in its replication in six to seven underserved communities across California.

To support the Net2 ('net squared') conference organized by CompuMentor and to be held at Cisco Systems world headquarters in Silicon Valley on May 30 and 31, 2006. Grant funds will be utilized to enable CompuMentor to conduct outreach, develop application guidelines, screen candidates, and award approximately 25 conference scholarships to organizations serving at-risk populations. Conference attendees will learn how to build, sustain, and become part of a continuing online community based upon the use of the open source content management system Drupal. The ultimate goal of the Net2 project is to facilitate adoption of emerging technology tools, and demonstrate their impact and efficacy in real-time application.

For the Sage Center at Crystal Stairs to operate a technology literacy program, through a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Junior LEGO Robotics team, where children are exposed to math, science, and engineering concepts using LEGO bricks enhanced with sensors, motors and gears. Sage will use the CTFC grant to teach children and youth to Web log or 'blog' about their FIRST project activities and start a 'career' online scrapbook. The blog will serve as a jumping off point to build information and knowledge about technology and science, and 'speak' in a way that demystifies science to underserved urban children and youth, who likely have little to no opportunities for such exposure in learning and career options. Exposure to and facility of blogging will also enable Sage children and youth to become more adept online and with digital media, such as participating in related discussion groups, manipulating links to science Web sites, or taking digital images of their robotic creations and posting them online. Blogging will also help children practice their writing skills, thus building their academic confidence by becoming technology literate.