CTNY staff have worked in Community Technology since 2011, collaborating with Allied Media Projects and the Detroit Community Technology Project to support the development of the first Digital Stewardship training programs in Detroit and Red Hook, Brooklyn. We are currently bringing Community Tech approaches to the Bronx, Kingston, NY, Clearfork Valley in rural East Tennessee, and South Los Angeles.

Detroit Community Technology Project was born from a legacy of coalition work and collaboration, building on Allied Media Projects’ (AMP) nine year track record of digital media education and community technology building in Detroit. 

DCTP has implemented the Digital Steward training in seven Detroit neighborhoods. Through Equitable Internet Initiative, DCTP supports three organizations in connecting the residential homes and businesses of vulnerable populations located in three low income neighborhoods and Highland Park to the internet. DCTP has supported 11 more community groups internationally to adopt and modify the training for their own contexts.

Origin Story

The Community Technology Collective owes its origins to the creation of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, a partnership of leaders and organizers from across the city that realized the importance of media and technology for community organizing and grassroots economic development. The DDJC defined the direction of digital justice and community technology and created the principles that the CTC follows today, and collaborated with the Allied Media Projects to develop the Community Technology and Digital Stewardship approaches. 

The Detroit Community Technology Project and Community Tech New York have a decade of partnership on projects that include the creation of educational resources and the support of localized, wireless networks. 

The founding of the Community Technology Collective is an intentional solidification of that partnership and a move to include other local communities in this work.