Technology Equity Manager
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About The Position
The Technology Equity Manager is responsible for digital equity, technology ethics, and technology-related philanthropic programming in the City of South Bend. There are two main components to this position. First, this position seeks new opportunities to help residents - with a focus on low and middle income residents in the city - improve technology access, adoption, and skills. They do this by forming partnerships, developing evidence-based programs, improving policy and seeking grants. Second, they work to make sure that the deployment of technology is as equitable and ethical as possible. To this end, they work with I&T, other City teams, neighborhood groups, and vendors to engage with residents on new technology deployments and projects (ex: WiFi expansion, smart sensors, citizen science projects, public safety technologies, etc.). The Technology Equity Manager is within the Civic Innovation Division in the Department of Innovation & Technology (I&T). Civic Innovation works with philanthropies, universities, businesses, start-ups, and other external national/local stakeholders to leverage technology as a force for quality of life improvements in South Bend. These improvements include IT/Tech workforce programming, tech sector community building, smart city piloting, and technology infrastructure improvements.
