Digital Equity for Incarcerated Individuals GitHub Repositories

Digital Equity for Incarcerated Individuals (DE4II) is an undeveloped subfield of digital equity focused on overcoming the unique barriers to advancing the goals of digital equity in a custodial context.

As a nascent field, their exists no shared understanding about what digital equity means in a custodial context, no shared vocabulary for discussing DE4II issues, no tools or best practices for evaluating the lack of digital equity in a custodial context or for designing, developing, or implementing digital equity programs for incarcerated individuals, and no roadmap to guide or inform DE4II efforts.

Advocacy Tools Repository

The DE4II Advocacy Tools repository provides a place for stakeholders to discover, contribute to, and make use of DE4II tools and content designed to facilitate and promote DE4II efforts.

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Custodial Agencies only allow incarcerated individuals access to pre-approved content, apps, and services. Due to the onerous nature of the pre-approval process, incarcerated individuals have access to only a small fraction of available appropriate content and very few apps and services.

Asset Maps Repository

The DE4II Asset Maps repository provides a place for stakeholders to discover, contribute to, and make use of curated lists of reviewed assets designed to accelerate and facilitate the pre-approval and delivery of assets to incarcerated individuals.

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Not all potentially beneficial assets are appropriate for delivery to incarcerated individuals in their current form. Assets may need to be adapted to overcome technical, security, or licensing concerns. Other assets may be more effective if adapted to present content in a manner that is more understandable in a custodial context. Finally, some potentially beneficial assets simply do not yet exist.

apps4inmates Repository

The DE4II apps4inmates repository provides a place for stakeholders and developers to adapt existing Android applications to the custodial context or to design, develop, and implement new Android apps that are uniquely beneficial to incarcerated individuals.

oer4inmates Repository

The DE4II oer4inmates repository provides a place for stakeholders, content creators, and publishers to adapt existing open content to the custodial context or to design and develop new open content that are uniquely beneficial to incarcerated individuals.

Dev Tools Repository

The DE4II Dev Tools repository provides a place for developers to design, develop, and implement tools for managing and utilizing asset maps and other DE4II tools.