Breezeline Launches Community Impact Program Promoting Digital Literacy and Responsible Use of Technology
15 Giugno 2022 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Program also supports online safety and STEM
initiatives for young women
Breezeline, the nation’s eighth-largest cable operator, is
pleased to announce a series of online community education
initiatives designed to foster digital literacy and equity while
supporting online safety, a healthy tech-life balance, as well as
promoting technology careers for young people.
Recognizing the great benefits that internet connectivity
provides, but also mindful that not all members of the community
currently share in its benefits equally, and seeking to foster the
responsible use of technology, Breezeline is supporting more than a
half-dozen non-profit organizations to promote these objectives in
its communities. These include:
- Digital Literacy for Seniors: Breezeline has partnered
with Cyber-Seniors to create free, educational webinars teaching
digital literacy basics for senior citizens. Cyber Seniors also
provides free, live, one-on-one sessions to help device users
become more tech savvy.
- Tech Life Balance: Breezeline has partnered with The
Digital Wellness Lab (DWL), which is composed of medical doctors,
psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and research scientists at
Boston Children’s Hospital who are working to understand and
promote wellness in the digital age. With DWL, Breezeline will
present short videos, webinars, and social media content to help
parents understand the impact of media on their children and the
practical steps they can take to mitigate its effects.
- Cyber-Bullying Prevention: Breezeline has partnered with
Pacer Center’s National Bullying Prevention Center to create
cyberbullying prevention resources to distribute to schools and
families during National Bullying Prevention Month in October and
throughout the year.
- Online Safety: Breezeline has partnered with
CyberSecurity Non-Profit (CSNP) to create short videos, blogs, and
social posts to inform and educate the public on ways to protect
against cybercrime and to promote online safety.
- STEM for Girls: Breezeline is supporting Code/Art’s
annual coding festival and national coding competition, as well as
regional coding clubs across the U.S. Code/Art is focused on
closing the gender gap in technology by creating coding programs
for girls in grades 3-12, inspiring girls to pursue computer
science, and helping to change society’s view of what a coder looks
like.
- Promoting Tech Careers: The Interactive Case Competition
challenges teams of graduate business students to solve real-life
case studies pertaining to the cable industry. As the lead sponsor
in the spring fall competitions, Breezeline senior leaders serve as
judges and mentors, while sponsorship dollars go to the winning
student teams as prize money to support their education. More than
40 percent of students go on to pursue tech careers.
“Breezeline is committed to using advanced technology to connect
homes, education, health care, businesses and communities to
everything that is important to them,” said Frank van der Post,
President of Breezeline. “We know the tremendous benefits of online
connectivity, but with this comes the responsibility to promote its
right and safe use, while ensuring that all segments of our
communities have access to connectivity in this digital age.”
Breezeline is committed each year to donating at least 1 percent
of its pre-tax profits to community-based support. In its last
fiscal year, Breezeline contributed more than $5 million in its
support of community initiatives.
ABOUT BREEZELINE
Cogeco US, operating as Breezeline, a subsidiary of Cogeco
Communications Inc. (TSX: CCA), is the eighth-largest cable
operator in the United States. The company provides its residential
and business customers with Internet, TV and Voice services in 12
states: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New
Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia. Cogeco Communications Inc. also operates in
Québec and Ontario, in Canada, under the Cogeco Connexion name.
Cogeco Inc.’s subsidiary, Cogeco Media, owns and operates 21 radio
stations as well as a news agency serving audiences primarily in
the province of Québec.
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