Digital Divide Partners

Community Technology at Work

FREE Wireless

Internet

Community Streaming Radio Stations

Resident Applications

Community Digital Content

Digital Divide Partners (DDP) collaborates with not-for-profit resident associations, housing managers, community groups and Internet Service Providers to bring innovative technology services, applications and solutions to the "digitally forgotten", the families and individuals struggling with survival in the urban environment.

The DDP knows that its resident partners, community and housing group clients are experts at what they do and what they need to improve the quality of their lives. We bring innovative technology solutions into the equation, utilizing unlicensed wireless spectrum and the latest digital tools and applications to solve their problems and empower their communities.

Community Network Construction
Community Studio Construction
Resident-Created Digital Content

Our Projects

Manhattan North Project

Empowering our Resident Community

DDP has partnered with the Manhattan North District Council of Presidents and other community organizations to expand and integrate the Project Partners’ existing wireless community network, in collaboration with the not-for-profit ISP The Smart Community Initiative, to bring FREE wireless internet service, applications and communications capabilities to the digitally forgotten residents of Harlem

Cooperative Membership Model


The Project utilizes a cooperative membership model where each of the development resident associations is an owner/operator of network facilities and services in their community, provided in collaboration with The Smart Community Initiative.  The Project brings services to the Black and Brown low-income residents for whom the only “affordable” Internet is FREE Internet; those families living at or below the poverty line, many unemployed, struggling to pay the rent, medical expenses and keep the kids fed - the "digital forgotten".

Grant Houses Community Radio

GIVING A VOICE TO THE VOICELESS
DDP collaborated with the Grant Houses Resident Association and the West Harlem Development Corp. to create a Community Streaming Radio Station in the basement of the development.

The Streaming Station broadcasts live and archived programming over the local Community Broadband Network, the Internet and over the Grant low-power FM transmitter located on the property.

The Streaming Station also enables the distribution of Emergency Preparedness and Response information to Grant Residents.

News and Informational Programming

        By and for Residents

East Harlem Community Radio

Empowering our Resident Community

EHCR is the creation of the James Weldon Johnson Resident Association in collaboration with the Digital Divide Partners.  EHCR gives a voice to residents of Johnson Houses as it provides a platform for the production of community based programming, as well as a communications platform among residents.

Our Programming


EHCR has been producing resident-created programming since 2017, including its much acclaimed Wisdom Table series. Round-table discussions with community elders and in-depth interviews with specialists in healthcare, housing, personal growth, legal justice, and most recently, COVID-19, are covered.




Grant Houses Community Radio

The Voice of the Upper West Side

 East Harlem Community Radio

The Pulse of Harlem

West Side Community Radio

 

Connecting the Community

Resident Technologies


Free Y-Fi connecting residents to educational, healthcare, municipal and other vital services and information resources

Emergency communications platforms operated by residents as back-up communications in emergencies


Resident-controlled technology enables real-time monitoring of public spaces
The Snakefield
Digital content created by and for residents

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