Digipreneurship University develops curriculum to effectively create socially-conscious entrepreneurs that motivate, inspire, and educate a new generation of thought leaders and small business owners. To accomplish our goal we create 21st century education programs and innovative platforms to leverage digital media for education technology advancement.
For the past decade we have donated over one thousand hours in community service, providing training workshops to over 100 staff and volunteers of various companies throughout the U.S. Technology firms like Vaskro International (New York City), Transtech International (Ghana, Africa), and the Blacksonville Community Network (Florida) have leveraged the Digipreneur Curriculum to train area executives from both the private and public sector in effective use of new media, an entrepreneurial mindset, and broadband adoption. These strategic partnerships were critical to measure the success of our training methods and now social entrepreneurs worldwide strive to combine Digipreneur best practices to develop new talent and guide community engagement to meet the increasing demands for access to urban broadband and careers in new digital media.
Our partner effort is focused on delivery of economically-viable programs in education, media andtechnology to under-served communities. We carry out this social responsibility to help spur local economic growth with an intense train-the-trainer, peer-to-peer, “green tech” certification program to prepare digital connectors for higher wage employment. We believe the vitality of local community anchor institutions and small businesses is critical to a thriving community and sustaining healthy business relationship.
Recently, we have customized “after school” programs to adopt STEM curricula that focus on training and employment of teen entrepreneurs for new job preparation. We are confident our fast track training and vocational program will equip students and educators with the vital skill sets to become digital ambassadors and responsible digital citizens of their communities.
They are competitive, creative, innovative, resilient and courageous. If those sound like core characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, they are, and we need to build on them.
It’s no secret that America’s black boys are considered the most difficult to educate, recalcitrant, truant, lost, confused, angry and dangerous demographic in the public-education system. The “school-to-prison pipeline” is an apt description for the millions of black male teenagers who must navigate the tumultuous channels of failed high poverty schools and communities without a committed, knowledgeable adult male to guide them through the daily dilemmas and risk assessments that far too often force them to choose between life and death. This horrific paradigm persists primarily because educators, policymakers, investors and CEOs have also failed at math and risk assessment.
One of the solutions to America’s current crisis of flailing economics in its metro regions and flagging global economic competitiveness lies in the potential of one of the nation’s most promising assets: black boys. America has seen consistent resiliency and success from black males in each generation, despite centuries of degradation and deliberate institutional hostility. In today’s knowledge-based, tech-driven, globally competitive innovation economy, the key to discovering a solution to America’s economic woes requires a different lens through which leaders view investing in black boys. That lens is math.
The nation’s highest growth in entrepreneurship from 2002 to 2007 was among black Americans: 60 percent, more than three times the national average during the same period, resulting in the creation of 1.9 million black-owned businesses.
Saving America’s black boys, by investing in their innovative competitive intelligence through policies of inclusive competitiveness, would yield a future bumper crop of American innovators prepared to compete in a globally competitive, tech-based workforce and to become high-growth, job-creating entrepreneurs. Investing in saving America’s most disconnected demographic is an investment in saving America.
