{"id":50,"date":"2020-07-17T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:47:22","slug":"celebrations-good-things-happening-in-our-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/celebrations-good-things-happening-in-our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"July Celebrations &#8211; Good things happening in our community!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>POUGHKEEPSIE COMMUNITY WIFI PROJECT (PKCW)\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nubian Directions II Inc., <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a long standing local not-for-profit with a history of working with low-income, under-served, academically under-prepared, multi-cultural populations in the City of Poughkeepsie<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, continues to move forward to provide free Wi-Fi access to \u201cunconnected\u201d City of Poughkeepsie residents. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the objective goal to create a local WiFi project that is \u201ccommunity owned-supported\u201d. The WiFi mesh network will aid in closing the socio-economic digital divide while building a technology inclusive community. As NDI &#8220;builds-out&#8221; and expands the PKCW WiFi mesh network in the City of Poughkeepsie, we are very mindful that we need to prepare quickly in case there is a second round of COVID-19 in the upcoming fall\/winter months. NDI will continue to work with our local colleges, school district, City\/County officials, CBOs\/non-profits, homeowners, faith-based and civic organizations, businesses, in order to expedite the site locations and WiFi equipment installations.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free WiFi is available at the following locations; Winnikee Avenue, Mansion St. Square Park, Malcolm X, and Pershing Avenue Park. Local city residents and Poughkeepsie City School District students can now\u00a0 enjoy free WiFi\/internet access.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested parties are welcome to join us and email us for more information about serving on a volunteer WiFi committee.\u00a0 Contact Nubian Directions (845) 452- 8574 or email <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rwright@nubiandirections.org<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POUGHKEEPSIE COMMUNITY WIFI PROJECT (PKCW)\u00a0 Nubian Directions II Inc., a long standing local not-for-profit with a history of working with low-income, under-served, academically under-prepared, multi-cultural populations in the City of Poughkeepsie, continues to move forward to provide free Wi-Fi access to \u201cunconnected\u201d City of Poughkeepsie residents. It is the objective goal to create a local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/celebrations-good-things-happening-in-our-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July Celebrations &#8211; Good things happening in our community!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224129],"tags":[230872,57537,230163,722,230419,45,222299,230650],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","tag-digital-divide","tag-dutchess-county","tag-equity","tag-hudson-valley","tag-nubian-directions-ii","tag-poughkeepsie","tag-poughkeepsie-schools","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}