Digital Bridges

Backgrounder

Digital Bridges is a Georgia College & State University venture with funding from the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a community-owned initiative to re-imagine
Milledgeville in the information age. It is the result of three years of collaboration between
Georgia College, the Georgia Digital Innovation Group, and the Knight Foundation.

Digital Bridges’ mission is to improve the quality of life in Milledgeville and Baldwin
County through the innovative use of technology. It is a community-led initiative so they
welcome any and all ideas about innovative way to use technology to improve Milledgeville-
Baldwin County.

Located in the Knight Community Innovation Center in downtown Milledgeville, visitors

can enjoy free wireless Internet, media equipment rental, computer and software usage, meeting
space, business consultation, basic computer courses and much more. Charges may apply for
printing services and reservation of Digital Bridges’ facilities.

Digital Bridges provides assistance with small business development and

entrepreneurism as well as classes that focus on educating the community on technology and
how to use it correctly. They work with identified community partners like the Yes program and
the public library to ensure that people receive the training and the access to digital technology
that they need. Digital Bridges is constantly looking for ways to help educate business owners
on how to use technology for their daily business.

“Everything that Digital Bridges does is based on the philosophy of the Knight
Foundation that nothing big happens without big ideas and that you have to take a risk to be
successful,” said Jim Wolfgang, Director of the Digital Innovation Group. “It is the citizens of
Milledgeville who will work together on setting that path to develop ways of using technology to
improve the quality of life for themselves and their children.”

“As a result of the community forums and the online survey we heard that the
communities’ first priority for us to focus on is economic development,” said Heather Holder,
Director of Digital Bridges. “As we lose more and more state jobs and continue seeing
reductions in staff in the jobs that we currently have in Milledgeville/Baldwin County people are
feeling unstable and they are requiring additional job training. That is something that Digital
Bridges offers: focused job training to try to expand people’s technology backgrounds.”

Digital Bridges enjoys working with the citizens of Milledgeville at the Knight
Community Innovation Center as well as through different outreach opportunities throughout
Milledgeville. For more information about Digital Bridges please visit
http://thedigitalbridges.org.
Digital Bridges / The Knight Innovation Center
127 W. Hancock St.
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Phone: (478) 387-0254
Fax:    (478) 456-5315
http://thedigitalbridges.org