Project YBEAM (Youth Broadband Education & Awareness Mentoring) is a project that will extend access to the tools available in mass communication to Maui's marginalized communities through computer literacy training in a systematic program that raises the awareness of Broadband technology through a variety of media components including television, radio, webstreaming, and face-to-face education. Offering relevant "hands-on" training in computer technology liiteracy to youth and young adults of rural, under-served Maui County, the project will expand opportunities for these residents and their families.
Goals of Project YBEAM:
Goal 1: Build on existing nonprofit network to create Broadband awareness
Build on the existing strategic nonprofit partnership network that has been developed by Akaku over the past eighteen years by the adoption of Broadband Technology across Maui County through an Awareness Campaign specifically targeted to engage youth and young adults.
Goal 2: Leverage existing Broadband infrastructure to provide experience
Evolve the existing PEG Access Cable Television methodology that Akaku has created over the past eighteen years to include new and emerging Broadband and Internet Technologies to train geographically isolated and economically disadvantaged youth and young adults living in under-served rural area of Maui County.
Goal 3: Develop a News Task Force in rural communities to provide a network of informed decision-makers that affect positive change in Maui County
To train a network of youth and young adults to use Broadband Technology to gather information, create video content about strategic issues and develop relationships in their communities to affect positive change through informed decision-making.
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Our projected Digital Broadband Literacy Curriculum for Project YBEAM.
Project YBEAM is made possible through a grant as a part of Zero Divide's “Generation ZD Digital Literacy Program.” This program specifically targets low-income, minority, disabled, and otherwise underserved youth between the ages of 5-25, who have limited or no access to digital and information technology in the home.
