KC Digital Drive

IASP helps low-income families get quality, high-speed internet access by establishing new service, restoring existing interrupted service, or supporting existing service. The program is available to families throughout the 9-county Kansas City metro area who earn up to twice the Federal Poverty level. The IASP was established by KC Digital Drive (KCDD) in October-November 2020 to facilitate distribution of emergency funds from CARES Act funding allocated to Johnson County and from the Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (Recovery Fund) at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. KCDD administers the program by promoting the service, screening applications, and helping selected families to obtain service, pay their internet bills, and connect to other digital resources in the community.

KC Goes Tech is a digital training and capacity building program launched in July 2022, to help expand the capacity for organizations that already provide human and social services to vulnerable populations but do not include digital access, training, or navigation as part of their service offering.
KC Goes Tech expands the capacity of community-service organizations with established client relationships to include digital training and navigation, ACP awareness/enrollment, help ensuring their clients have access to computers or tablets, and helping them network more effectively with existing digital literacy providers.

Code for KC is Kansas City’s chapter of the Code for America Brigade network, a group of civic-minded geeks who volunteer their talents to projects that improve how our local governments and community organizations use the web. We strive for principles of open data and technology advocacy for civic good.