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Micheline Wilcoxen
Micheline Wilcoxen
Micheline Wilcoxen is the Executive Director of Community Technology Organizing Consortium in Los Angeles, California. She is a founding member of the Community Technology Organizing Consortium (CTOC) and currently serves as Director of CTOC. She is actively involved with State and Local policy issues surrounding community technology.
Building Community Capacity for Civic Engagement
Micheline understands that an appropriate, open, and enabling public policy toward technology fuels economic growth and provides access to all. CTOC was founded for the purpose of building the capacity of community organizations to use technology services to promote their missions in the underrepresented communities of the greater Los Angeles regions. Working to achieve Digital Inclusion, CTOC Members include advocates for public access, community technology and urban development collectively making positive things happen.
CTOC builds capacity in three ways:
- Through training and education programs - CTOC offers regular informational workshops on a monthly basis on topics relevant to CTC/Programs, CBOs and Faith-based organizations.
- Through the Community Technology Institute that develops comprehensive community technology training toolkits - Train the Trainer and Digital Storytelling Train the Trainer Program.
- Through educating communities, policy makers, and non-profit organizations on the how technology and telecommunications policies will impact the development of underrepresented communities.
CTOC believes that policy is a link to sustainability, for both an individual program and the field as a whole. When doing policy work, it is important to know that elected officials and other decision makers do not necessarily understand community technology, but are willing and able to learn if given the opportunity. CTOC enables members of their respective communities to actively participate in public policy by providing them the tools necessary to bridge this gap.