HISTORY OF THE GRANT Original Announcement from Facebook Facebook Awards $200,000 in Digital Citizenship Research Grants by Facebook Safety (Notes) on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 8:52am Last August, we unveiled our inaugural Digital Citizenship Research Grants program, a $200,000 initiative aimed at improving understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with how kids are growing up in a world of social media and technology. Today, we are pleased to … [Read more...]
Broadening Engagement with a Little Help from Friends
We all talk about broadening engagement. FCC Chairman Genachowski shared this data with us.He acknowledges the Mobile Divide at a conference at the New America Foundation in January. Barriers to Use Affordability: 36 percent of non-adopters, or 28 million adults, said they do not have home broadband because the monthly fee is too expensive (15 percent), they cannot afford a computer, … [Read more...]
