About Pocketbook Protest
Pocketbook Protest is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit advocacy organization designed to inform and educate public policy makers, elected and appointed officials, civic, social and community leaders, and minority consumers living in urban and rural communities about the impact of advanced communication technologies and digital innovation on our daily lives.
Whether we are talking about enhancing education and job training opportunities, improving public safety, or increasing the efficacy of the provision of healthcare or government services, new technologies and digital applications can contribute tremendously to our collective well-being.
While minority communities tend to be first-adopters of some of the latest gadgetry and wireless devices, we oftentimes fail to optimize our use of new technologies in a manner that would help boost our socio-economic standing and political power.
To these ends, the goal of Pocketbook Protest is three-fold:
1. Help elected and appointed officials, public policy makers and community leaders develop new media and constituent outreach strategies to better engage the masses in civic/political dialogue and social change;
2. Participate in and create local and national forums for the discussion of the socioeconomic impact of technological innovation, and discern new strategies to help increase awareness about the profound power of technology and digital innovation; and
3. Develop culturally relevant content that fosters the increased adoption and use of information and communication technologies in urban and rural minority communities.
Pocketbook Protest is about leveraging our power as consumers and community leaders to affect positive change in our increasingly digital economy. We are about the business of engaging our communities and inciting them to action through the use of digitally empowering activities. We strive to increase awareness and promote the adoption and use of new technologies to better the stead of urban and rural minority communities.