Thinking Through... Digital Equity or Digital Divide?

Digital Equity or Digital Divide? with Colin Rhinesmith

Centering equity in digital spaces is about access to broadband and devices, and agency, inclusion, and co-creation.

In this conversation, Dr. Colin Rhinesmith, founder of the DEAR Lab and longtime scholar-practitioner in digital equity, joins host Dr. Allison Lester to reflect on what gets overlooked in conversations about the digital divide. Together, they explore the complicated intersections of public infrastructure, AI literacy, participatory research, and lived experience. They discuss candidly about funding failures, co-design, and the hard emotional labor of translating between community realities and institutional demands.

This is a conversation about slowing down, listening differently, and rethinking what gets counted as “impact.”