{"id":4529,"date":"2018-11-12T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:53:15","slug":"boosting-digital-literacy-boys-and-girls-club-program-in-partnership-with-shopify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/2018\/boosting-digital-literacy-boys-and-girls-club-program-in-partnership-with-shopify\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Digital Literacy &#8211; Boys and Girls Club program in partnership with Shopify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Boosting Digital Literacy &#8211; Boys and Girls Club program in partnership with Shopify\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1413\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy.png 1413w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy-512x230.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy-1024x461.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy-320x144.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/boostingdigitalliteracy-360x162.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1413px) 100vw, 1413px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all youth in Ottawa have the same access to technology, but an exciting collaborative venture between three city institutions has set out to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2017, Christine Riddell, director of Carleton\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Ventures<\/a>&nbsp;summer camps and programs, met with Brittney Oberfeld, outreach producer at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shopify<\/a>, to develop a pilot project aimed at creating digital literacy programs for youth members of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgcottawa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa<\/a>&nbsp;(BGCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the year, a set of skill -building workshops, aptly named Link&lt;ed&gt;, were ready to be delivered to the first group of BGCO members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/boosting-digital-literacy\/\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all youth in Ottawa have the same access to technology, but an exciting collaborative venture between three city institutions has set out to change that. 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