By Kathy Desmond, President, and Tan Vu, Director of Digital Inclusion, People’s Emergency Center People’s Emergency Center (PEC) has been providing Philadelphians with free to low-cost Internet access, digital literacy training, and refurbished equipment since 2003, with the support of a host of funders, partners, and volunteers, including Comcast and its employees. Initially a strategy to […]
Free Digital Literacy Training Classes Offered Throughout Philadelphia
Comcast, along with community partners People’s Emergency Center, Philadelphia OIC and Career Wardrobe, will provide a series of free training sessions in Philadelphia this fall as part of the company’s Internet Essentials program, the nation’s largest broadband adoption initiative designed to bridge the digital divide. The sessions are open to the public and designed to help participants gain […]
People’s Emergency Center & Comcast: Changing Lives Through Computer Basics
The last time Dorothy Dicks was in a computer class, years ago in community college, the professor moved so fast that she got left behind. But at the free Computer and Internet Classes sponsored by Comcast and offered by the People’s Emergency Center (PEC), she says things were different. The instructor “has patience, he lets […]
