Technology capacity building in Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English

Spanish Capacity Building Session

What do we want to take away from this session? E-(Aspiration) – works with Tech capacity and digital security – wants to do workshops in Spanish; how do we do it…what is needed to do it J-(LiBRE) – want to get ideas on how to include more Spanish speakers in the work A-(web developer at Design Action) – English is the default language in everything – would like to see more education and classes for Spanish speakers in technology, more administration and developers Oscar-(Teens exploring tech) – founder and director – wants to learn from others and what else we can do M –(Sula Batsu) wants to build tech capacity and appropriate tech to help communities – curious what Latinx community is doing here in California Y-(Tech director at UCSC) – works with students and what is happening with tech G-using videos, comics, t.v. and various ways to get more folks involved in tech J-(Founder of Hacking space) – wants to help others get connected to tech – unsatisfied that there is not a big youth presence in tech and its needed in the movement spaces – we need documentation and interfaces as well as strategies

ACTIVITY: What we have and What we need Methodology and manuals – need to standardize for different populations (i.e. Tech independence) with exercises and activities Need to make available for all SulaBatsu.com Latinx have the will to learn and Google translate is not [good] enough We need better systems to translate and make it open source to be able to change We have some resources to help interpret(ation) = MUMBLE We need to build relationships with Tech “Nerds” and more education We need authentic and cultural sensitivity -> in our language – there are various levels of skills and our relationships are impacted We need strategic funding and campaign development that is done in Spanish Cyber Security – there are not too many resources in Spanish We should develop a support network for folks that are interested in continuing the education We need a repository of information and resources and materials in Spanish