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Citywide digital campaign is urged. Chicago told to look beyond connectivity

Chicago should undertake a communitywide campaign to become the nation’s most advanced digital city, a mayor’s advisory committee report urged Friday.

Instead of only seeking to extend connectivity to underprivileged neighborhoods, the city should help poorer residents get subsidized computers, get needed instruction and make digital communications an integral part of community activities, said the report presented by Julia Stasch, an executive at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Mayor Richard Daley’s former chief of staff.

Called the "City That Networks," the report said that rather than merely seeking to close the digital divide that separates cyberspace haves from have-nots, the city should pursue digital excellence, which Stasch defined as "universal, active and meaningful participation" in the digital world.

By Jon Van
Tribune staff reporter

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_wifi_0616jun16,0,3835615.story?coll=chi-business-hed

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