WPA

There is a terrific post up on Afro-Netizen by guest blogger Helen De Michiel, the national co-director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, based in San Francisco.

Helen calls for a digital-era Works Progress Administration (the old WPA from the New Deal started in the 1930s) so that, as she puts it, “Our next president can help reconstruct America’s fragmented and relatively weak public communications infrastructure by using the most effective tool our youth wield — the power and depth of their digital fluency.” Read more »