Udacity's work includes the "Future is Digital Challenge" with CORI, an initiative focused on training rural Americans interested in developing new skills to help them participate in the nation’s growing digital economy.
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Google-backed online learning service Udacity is partnering with local organizations to teach people tech skills so they get promoted at work
In the news|Broadband, Tech Economies, Tech-Based Economic Development
We need a rural tech boom
We must debunk a pervasive myth about rural America that says small towns can't support innovation and technology. They can — and do. And for more of them to thrive, we need a shift in attitude.
Matt Dunne, Op-Ed, Newsweek
Blog|Entrepreneurship
Five reasons mentorship matters for rural tech startups
Author Maia Patrick Donohue offers five things to know about mentorship that show how it can be so important for rural tech entrepreneurs.
Blog|Future Of Work, Tech Economies
Expanded AmeriCorps VISTA program kicks off with orientation in Springfield
Blog|Entrepreneurship, Tech Economies, Tech-Based Economic Development
Why coworking and entrepreneurship spaces are crucial to digital economic development
The second part of a three-part series on the infrastructure needed to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.
Blog|Entrepreneurship, Tech Economies
Five startups that show rural innovation is way more than ag tech
Too often, we have conversations with people who believe that agriculture technology is the only innovation that could occur in rural America. But let's be clear: That notion is woefully incomplete.