Bringing Silicon Valley to Harlem
“The goal of Silicon Harlem is to develop accessible broadband infrastructure, reproducible in urban markets that is affordable, fast, resilient, and smart.”
— Clayton Banks.
Currently in Harlem, Clayton Banks is on a mission to close the Digital Divide. Clayton Banks is a multimedia producer from California, who has been dedicating his time with Harlem youth.
In Harlem not all residents have access to sufficient internet, or information and communication technologies that are not cell phones.
This story stood out to me as a Harlem native, I can relate to wanting to pour knowledge and resources into the community. Growing up in Harlem, although I always had access to computers and internet, I knew a lot of people who did not. Like Clayton mention in his interview (linked below), a cell phone is just the basics of having access, ICTs have many functions that make life easier and connects you with knowledge, that a cell phone can not realistically fulfill all of those possibilities.
With his organization Silicon Harlem, I am excited to see what the youth he is working with will accomplish.
Into the Digital Divide 