• When you solve a problem for the most vulnerable, you end up solving it for everyone. (Curb cutouts were designed for people with diabilities, but everytime to wheel your luggage, or push a stroller, or ride a bike, you realize the benefits of this design.)

• Frame digital divide in terms that lead with real people, and a sense of social justice--don't lead with technology.
• First we invent our technologies, then we use our te
  

Hi I'm Bennett Grassano, CompuMentor's Director of Insitutional Development.  I've been on the inside of Netsquared from time to time, but I've somehow managed to avoid it's blogospheric vortex until now. Since my title often confuses people much smarter than me, I should tell you that, although I've punched the clock as a Web Developer in the past, most of the "Development" I do these days is program and fundraising development for CompuMentor and TechSoup. The "Institutions" I work with are primarily foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. At a certain point I realized that I'm much more fluent in the English language than I'll ever be in PHP or Ruby--hence the slight change in title over the years.