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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
High Tech Programmers in Low-Income Communities: Creating a Computer Culture in a Community Technology Center
Authors : Yasmin B. Kafai, Kylie A. Peppler, Grace M. Chiu
Published in: Communities and Technologies 2007
Publisher: Springer London
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For the last twenty years, issues of the digital divide have driven efforts around the world to address the lack of access to computers and the Internet, pertinent and language appropriate content, and technical skills in low-income communities (
Schuler & Day, 2004a
and
b
). The title of our paper makes reference to a milestone publication (
Schon, Sanyal, & Mitchell, 1998
) that showcased some of the early work and thinking in this area. Schon, Sanyal and Mitchell’s book edition included an article outlining the Computer Clubhouse, a type of community technology center model, which was developed to create opportunities for youth in low-income communities to become creators and designers of technologies by (
1998
). The model has been very successful scaling up, with over 110 Computer Clubhouses now in existence worldwide.