by Erin Melton | Sep 1, 2019 | Community Education and Awareness, Health Innovation Team
Humana is a national health insurance company with an office based in Kansas City, Missouri. Humana launched its first Bold Goal Markets in 2015, and Kansas City was added to that list in 2017. The Bold Goal is to make the population in a given market 20% healthier by...
by Erin Melton | Aug 10, 2019 | Community Education and Awareness, Healthcare Technology
The Center for Practical Bioethics (CPB) and Cerner Corporation collaborated to present “Defining Ethical Guidelines for Augmented Intelligence” on August 9, 2019. KC Digital Drive representatives were invited to attend. From 8 am to 5 pm, attendees listened to...
by Erin Melton | Jun 20, 2018 | Digital Skills Training, Code for KC, Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access
Jacob Wagner, Director of Urban Studies at UMKC and co-founder of The Center for Neighborhoods, spoke at Code for KC’s Learn Night on June 18, 2018. The Center for Neighborhoods is a UMKC resource that works to build the capacity of Kansas City neighborhoods. Jacob...
by Erin Melton | Apr 25, 2018 | Community Education and Awareness, Digital Art, Code for KC
Steve Noll, former Executive Director, and Brent Schondelmeyer, board member, of the Jackson County Historical Society (JCHS), spoke at Code for KC’s Learn Night on April 23, 2018. They shared information about how the Wilborn Collection came to be, what it...
by Katherine Hambrick | Sep 6, 2017 | Home Internet Access, Community Education and Awareness
Our meeting kicked off this month with two Hire KC Youth Digital Scholars, Noah Yener and Eleanor Nash. The report they’ve worked on for the last 8 weeks of their internship was to identify and evaluate Community Learning Centers, such as Brush Creek Community Center,...
by Katherine Hambrick | Jul 12, 2017 | Community Education and Awareness
The second round of Gigabit Community Fund projects from Mozilla is happening in participating cities this summer. This round is primarily focused on rewarding cities with workforce development- or education-related projects. Mozilla is also looking to reward...
