The West Central Tribune reports…

To improve digital equity across the county, Swedburg and Mark Boeschen, committee chair, asked the Kandiyohi County Board at its meeting Thursday to contribute $35,000 to New Vision Foundation, a nonprofit that is planning to bring digital literacy, coding and software engineering courses to Willmar. The county board approved the $35,000 request unanimously.

“One of the goals of the broadband committee is also digital equity,” Boeschen said. “It is something we don’t talk about a lot, which is unfortunate. We need to start talking about it more.”

New Vision Foundation was founded in 2016 by Hussein Farah in Minneapolis. One of the organization’s missions is to help create pathways for success and motivate disadvantaged youth in Minnesota through its computer courses.

Very careful readers might remember Hussein from his presentation at the 2019 or 2021 Broadband conference.