Confined & Connected: Harnessing the Internet to Positively Impact & Improve Quality of Life for Incarcerated

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[ UUID ] eb5c9c52-1a29-4d0f-907f-58916aa105a4

[ Session Name ] Confined & Connected: Harnessing the Internet to Positively Impact & Improve Quality of Life for Incarcerated [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Decentralization

[ Submitter's Name ] Gina Grant [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Edovo [ Submitter's Github ] @GinaGrant

What will happen in your session?

During the session we will explore the following questions: How might we positively impact the lives of justice involved individuals? How does the learning continue when individuals re-enter society? We will explore ways to leverage self-directed, goal-driven learning pathways for individual affected by incarceration. We will use Etherpad to document learning opportunities that unlock the potential of every person affected by incarceration.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Goal of the session is to expand the conversation & explore the potential for connecting incarnated individuals with educational, vocational & self improvement learning opportunities. The goal of the session is to connect with partners interested in making an impact with justice involved individuals.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

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Time needed

90 mins

[GinaGrant]

Hi MozFest,

I’m writing to request that my proposal Confined & Connected: Harnessing the Internet to Positively Impact & Improve Quality of Life for Incarcerated be considered for stipend.

Thanks,

Gina

[leahcatherine]

Gina - thank you for your submission.

This is a great idea. Can you speak directly to the elements of digital inclusion that tie in here? How will pathways to re-entry be influenced by or include access?

[GinaGrant]

Hi Leah,

The elements of digital inclusion include providing inmates access to tablet technology for education, vocation and self improvement with respect. Attention is focused on ensuring safety to society while creating an Internet with content and entertainment for self guided personalized learning. All the information, tools and self improvement strategies are specifically geared to individual who are impacted by incarceration. In the USA incarcerated (jail & prison) adults have limited and/or no access to education and/or rehabilitation while confined. The digital inclusion also addresses reentry, communications, and digital literacy. The power of the internet is harnessed to establish on a secure network which provides justice involved individuals with access to a wide range of educational course including GED certification, Lexis Nexis to work on their case, job training for reentry to society and more. Edovo is piloting an Edovo Go feature that enables continuity of programming into probation and parole.

As an example, Edovo connects inmates to social services to aid and support individuals reentry to society. The pathway to reentry includes a "Goals" section with a playlist of lessons and/or activities for inmates. Edovo is committed to building resources with content partners to provide more diverse, contributors. Currently, Edovo connects learners to thousand of lessons across academic, vocational, and treatment programming.

Thanks,

Gina

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On Aug 18, 2017, at 1:49 AM, leahcatherine notifications@github.com wrote:

Gina - thank you for your submission.

This is a great idea. Can you speak directly to the elements of digital inclusion that tie in here? How will pathways to re-entry be influenced by or include access?

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[kenyatta1]

This proposal has progressed to our next phase of deliberation! We will be following up shortly.

[hannahkane]

@GinaGrant - I'm seeking clarity on your stipend request. Your proposal has made it through to the next phase of consideration by the Digital Inclusion wrangler team. Unfortunately though, we've got way more seeking stipends than we have access to. If we were unable to give you access to a stipend, might you have other means available to you to make it to Mozfest? If you would like we can also have this conversation via email.

[GinaGrant]

I appreciate being considered for a Digital Inclusion travel stipend. I'm excited that I've advanced to the next round of the selection process. Yes, let's take the conversation offline via email. Thanks so much!

Sent from a mobile device - please excuse the brevity of the message & any typos.

On Aug 22, 2017, at 1:20 PM, hannahkane notifications@github.com wrote:

@GinaGrant - I'm seeking clarity on your stipend request. Your proposal has made it through to the next phase of consideration by the Digital Inclusion wrangler team. Unfortunately though, we've got way more seeking stipends than we have access to. If we were unable to give you access to a stipend, might you have other means available to you to make it to Mozfest? If you would like we can also have this conversation via email.

— You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[sedgwickkm]

Unfortunately, we didn't feel this session quite fit within the Digital Inclusion space this year, so we've removed the milestone to allow other spaces to consider your proposal.

[GinaGrant]

I appreciate your consideration of my proposal. Thanks!

[mozfest-bot]

Thank you for taking the time to submit a session to MozFest. Due to the high level of submissions, we’re unable to accept all proposals and unfortunately, your session was not part of the final group.

Thank you for taking the time to submit and we will follow up on email very soon.