Interactive research tools

Projects, Tools, & Research

The portfolio turns the dissertation’s evidence, frameworks, and applied records into tools for comparison, inquiry, planning, and learning.

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Section 01

Outcomes

Test the model

Simulations

Use scenarios to examine how decisions, constraints, stakeholders, and feedback alter possible outcomes.

Enter simulations

People using digital tools across community settings

Capability and participation

Digital Skills

Explore the skill domains that connect access to confident, safe, critical, and productive participation.

Explore digital skills

People and institutions connected in a community stakeholder network

Coalition planning activity

Stakeholder Simulation

Answer a guided series of project questions to identify key stakeholders and explain why each role belongs at the table.

Build a stakeholder overview

Section 02

Data & Evidence

Global initiative inventory

Projects

Search documented projects and initiatives by place, infrastructure, technology, education, and workforce connection.

Search projects Projects World View

World map for exploring project source counts

Country and US regional evidence

Projects Globe

Explore articles, reports, and initiatives by country, with a closer look at United States regions.

Explore project evidence

State evidence

US States

Compare state profiles and connect local conditions to the national research and conceptual model.

Explore state profiles

Relationships and roles

Stakeholders

Explore stakeholder networks, evidence pathways, comparisons, codes, and source references.

Open the network

World map representing global digital divide research themes

Country evidence

Global Country Profiles

Explore country-specific profiles connecting national conditions, barriers, solutions, projects, and pathways toward closing the digital divide.

Explore country profiles Mobile World View

World map used in the interactive country globe

Rotating country explorer

Country Globe Profiles

Turn and zoom a three-dimensional earth, select a country, and open its profile without leaving the global view.

Explore the mobile world

Research evidence and commentary illustrated by an open book, reports, magnifying glass, and discussion bubbles

Studies, reports and perspectives

Research & Commentary

Explore digital divide evidence and analysis by year reported, keyword, item type and identified topic.

Search research and commentary

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Artificial intelligence across the evidence

AI

Explore AI-related projects, initiatives, research, and commentary together. Filter by topic, place, publication year, and record type.

Explore AI

Connected places representing comparative digital inclusion research

Cross-country analysis

Country Comparison

Compare barriers, documented initiatives, evidence coverage, and national conditions across up to four countries.

Open comparison workspace

Section 03

Books and Workshops

Interactive virtual book

Implications for Education

Read the education implications of the research through an illustrated, chapter-based virtual book.

Open the book

Interactive virtual book

Workforce Skills That Work

Explore the skills, supports, pathways, and partnerships that connect digital participation to employment and advancement.

Open the book

Interactive virtual book

From Barriers to Solutions

Trace visible problems to their underlying causes and compare responses designed for causal fit.

Open the book

Interactive virtual book and worksheet

The Decision Gate

Apply five checks to a proposed response, examine six worked cases, and decide whether the idea should advance, change, or stop.

Open the book

Interactive virtual book and mapping tool

The People Who Make Connection Work

Identify the people, institutions, and relationships that shape a project across its full life cycle, then build a stakeholder map.

Open the book

Interactive virtual book and skills catalogue

Connected and Capable

Explore the digital skills that turn connection into opportunity, with country examples, evidence charts, and a searchable catalogue of 50 skills.

Open the book

Browse with the arrows, swipe, or use your keyboard. Select a book to open it.

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Facilitated model journey

Guided Workshop

Move through ten phases and the strategic decision gate with opening provocations, facilitated questions, simulations, and downloadable 11×17 worksheets.

Begin the workshop

Section 04

Dissertation Mechanics

Analytical language

Code Book

Search the descriptive code book and examine categories developed through the research.

Search the code book

Conceptual model spread across a research desk surrounded by piles of documents and scattered evidence papers

Sources, coding, and model development

Model To Evidence

Trace source quotations through codes, categories, and themes to every model area, with explicit analytical reasoning and supporting application artifacts.

Explore the evidence crosswalk

Connected research concepts progressing into an actionable model

Shared research language

Glossary

Search key terms and acronyms, then connect each definition to findings, model phases, projects, and geographic profiles.

Search the glossary

Hand-drawn mind map of the digital divide problem space

Visual analytical memos

MindMapping Memos

Follow six hand-drawn maps that capture the research problem, theory, practice, and emerging vision as the study developed.

Explore the mind maps