Digital Divide Partners

DDP and Community Partners respond to COVID-19 crisis in Harlem with help of funding from the Internet Society Foundation.

"When COVID-19 hit New York City, the Streaming Station Community News Project was barely getting started, after receiving an Internet Society Foundation Beyond the Net grant for close to $30,000 in December 2019. 

The original plan was to set-up studios where underserved communities in Harlem could produce and stream news and informational programming for and about their community. The project team had opened studios in East and West Harlem just as social distancing, self-isolation and quarantines began.

   Gathering folks together in a studio no longer made sense, so we adjusted our mission. All of a sudden it made sense for news about COVID-19 to be shared. People were dropping like flies but we had no way to communicate with people.”