The Community Informatics Research Lab organizes this annual fall lecture series that explores various qualities of digital inequalities by featuring key speakers from different sectors of society, local and beyond. The lecture series began in Fall 2008. A multi-media archive of past presentations is available at http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/cilab/DigitalDivide.html.
Fall 2012 schedule
| Date | Guest |
| September 5, 2012 | Mike Smeltzer, UC2B, and UIUC Director of Networking |
| September 12, 2012 |
Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey, Assistant Director, Museum of the Grand Prairie |
| September 19, 2012 |
Annie Clay, Director, Help Book Online Respondent: Barry Ackerson, Associate Dean & MSW Program Director, UIUC School of Social Work |
| September 26, 2012 |
Reverend Willie G. Comer, Pastor, Berean Covenant Church Will Kyles, City Councilman, Champaign Chris Hamb, Chrisp Media |
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Thursday, October 4, 2012 *in Illini Union Room 209 |
Donald Owen, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Urbana School District 16 |
| October 10, 2012 | Michael Dilley, Fire Chief, Urbana Fire Rescue Services |
| October 17, 2012 |
Jon Gant, Research Associate Professor, UIUC GSLIS, and Director, proposed Center for Digital Inclusion Respondent: J. Steven Downie, Associate Dean of Research, UIUC GSLIS |
| October 24, 2012 |
Dr. William Schuh, Chief Medical Information Officer, Carle Foundation Hospital Respondent: Jerry Dewitt, Library Manager,Carle Foundation Hospital |
| October 31, 2012 |
John Wagstaff, Head of Music and Performing Arts Library, UIUC |
| November 7, 2012 | Denise Osler-Brown, former Computer Instructor, Douglass Branch Library |
| November 14, 2012 |
Katie Abrams, Interim Director and Assistant Professor, UIUC Ag Com/Coll of Media/ACES Abigail Sackmann, Research Assistant, UIUC Ag Com and Masters student, GSLIS |
| November 28, 2012 |
Valerie McWilliams, Managing Attorney, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Stacie Colston Patterson, Outreach Coordinator, Illinois Legal Aid Online |
| December 5, 2012 |
Blaine Fahey, developer, Illinois App for the iPhone (tentative) Respondent: Lissette Piedra, Associate Professor, UIUC School of Social Work |
