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The CollabARTive Community: Creating Space For Art and Tech
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
The CollabARTive Community: Creating Space For Art and Tech
Art and technology are more connected than we think. It threads through it, holding space for expression and humanity. This story follows how Kyla is building a creative community centered in connection, expression, and collective care.
Read full story here: https://az-1.info/az-1-original-collabartive-community-creating-space-art-and-tech
City Bureau Annual Report-2025
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
The CollabARTive Community: Creating Space For Art and Tech
Kyla was featured in the City Bureau Annual Report, highlighting her leadership in shaping a storytelling-centered approach to digital equity through partnership on the IMPACT Small Grants Program. Through this work, 14 grantees produced over 189 digital inclusion stories highlighting community impact across Cook County.
Read full report here: https://www.citybureau.org/annual-report-2025
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
Digital equity goes far beyond internet access. It touches people, trust, language, and the systems that shape opportunity. In this episode of Digital Access Discoveries podcast, Kyla Williams Tate, shares how digital inclusion works best when it is treated as a living ecosystem.
Listen to episode here: https://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/beyond-the-blog/digital-access-for-all/how-cook-county-is-advancing-digital-equity-through-people-policy-and-practice.html
Digital Equity Is an Ecosystem, Not a Checkbox
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
How Cook County Is Advancing Digital Equity Through People Policy and Practice
Digital equity is often reduced to access: devices and internet. In this blog recap, Kyla Williams Tate reframes it as a living ecosystem shaped by people, policy, trust, and shared responsibility. Through storytelling and lived experience, the work becomes more visible, relatable, and actionable.
Read full blog post here: https://www.thepattersonfoundation.org/blog/digital-equity-is-an-ecosystem-not-a-checkbox.html
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
What began as Kyla’s idea connect storytelling and digital equity became IMPACT Small Grants Program through a partnership with City Bureau. The program supports community organizations sharing stories deepen understanding digital divide and center community voices.
Read full article here: https://www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/8/5/how-an-idea-to-address-the-digital-divide-became-a-grant-program
In Cook County, Libraries Become the Digital Navigators
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
How an Idea to Address the “Digital Divide” Became a Grant Program
In this SHLB blog, Cook County libraries are reimagined as digital navigators, expanding access to digital skills. Through county-led investment and partnership, the initiative shifts from short-term staffing to sustainable change and reflects Kyla’s vision to strengthen community institutions and close gaps in digital access and equity.
Read full blog post here: https://www.shlb.org/blogs/in-cook-county-libraries-become-the-digital-navigators