Federal and State Officials Commend Club Digital: Nation's Most Comprehensive Bilingual Digital Literacy Program
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials from the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and the State of California will join Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and impreMedia publisher Monica Lozano as well as other national and community leaders to commend Club Digital, the nation's largest bilingual Internet literacy program dedicated to closing the digital divide. The program, which launched August 1st throughout California, provides free bilingual training and lessons to more than 2 million Hispanics in California and will expand nationally in early 2012, eventually reaching more than 9 million Hispanics. Club Digital lessons are easily accessible online at www.club-digital.com, and are printed daily in August in La Opinion as well as in the free weekly publications La Opinion Contigo and El Mensajero. Community and government partners will also distribute more than 200,000 weekly copies of the lessons throughout the state free to the public.
Media are invited to join the officials in touring The Magnolia Place Family Center in Los Angeles, one of many statewide community partners hosting Club Digital training. Training will also take place in an onsite mobile computer lab provided by Cesar Zaldivar-Motts, Executive Director of the Southeast Community Development Corporation.
Media wishing to take part in the tour should arrive no later than 9:30 a.m.
Details of the event are below:
When: Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Media Check-in: 9:00 — 9:30 a.m.
Media Tour of computer labs: 9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
VIP Tour: 10:00 — 10:20 a.m.
Press conference: 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Where: Magnolia Place Family Center
1910 Magnolia Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90007
Speakers: Monica Lozano, CEO and Publisher of impreMedia
Juan Sepulveda, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
Sunne McPeak, President and CEO of California Emerging Technology Fund
Tom Torlakson, California Superintendent of Public Instruction
Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California
SOURCE Club Digital
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