DigitalTown With the NIAAA to Collaborate on a 60 High School Program With Its Community Domains
June 16 2014 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
DigitalTown With the NIAAA to Collaborate on a 60 High School
Program With Its Community Domains
Safe Secure Email/Social Communications Will Be the Lead
Design
MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwired - Jun 16, 2014) -
DigitalTown, Inc. (OTCQB: DGTW) today announced it has agreed
with the NIAAA (The National Interscholastic Athletic
Administrators Association) on perpetual usage rights on a broad
range of issues with its 22,000+ community domain portfolio.
As such, DigitalTown will work with the NIAAA on developing and
launching a 60-high school program that will be the incubator for
its 22,000+ community domain portfolio. The high schools will be
NIAAA member schools with the selection process starting in July
2014 by the NIAAA.
Conditions for the high school to be selected are the current
schools using Google Apps for its students or schools in the
process of implementing Google Apps. Google Apps has now been
the communication platform choice by 72 of the top 100 universities
and colleges and is expecting to be the dominate platform for high
schools in the near future. DigitalTown will retain the
exclusive rights as the authorized Google reseller for the
program.
DigitalTown will move its Trusted Webmail and Trusted Cell Phone
programs that are currently with third party software vendors and
will redesign them to be fully integrated with Google Apps and new
features that tie into Facebook and Twitter.
Tragedies have been hitting US schools almost weekly since the
Newtown tragedy. The NIAAA and DigitalTown are committed to
building a secure communications platform for coaches, teachers,
students and alumni, along with parental controls. This will
include design studies to deal with massive underage email and
social media communications that are not currently being
addressed. Additional areas to be included in the new site
designs are sports, clubs and alumni usage with community
interaction.
The NIAAA and DigitalTown will jointly reach out to the major
tech companies, Google, Facebook, Twitter and the major cell phone
carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, for new
technologies to help solve some of the problems in communications
with today's youth and to work with the incubation launch.
Additional third party application developers may contact us at
info@digitaltown.com
About DigitalTown:
DigitalTown, Inc. in Burnsville, MN is developing a nationwide
network of more than 20,000 local online communities for high
school students, alumni, boosters and local citizens. For more
information, please visit www.digitaltown.com.
About the NIAAA:
The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators
Association, the national voice for interscholastic athletic
administrators founded in 1977, preserves, enhances and promotes
the educational values of interscholastic athletics through the
professional development of its members in the areas of education,
leadership, and service. The NIAAA's commitment to leadership
programs, resources and services support the athletic
administrator's efforts in providing quality athletic participation
opportunities for students. The NIAAA promotes a positive working
relationship with state athletic administrator and State and
national athletic/activity associations in addition to developing
strategic alliances with other education based agencies. For more
information, please visit www.NIAAA.org.
Safe Harbor Language:
Any statements contained herein related to future events are
forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
1995. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements. DigitalTown, Inc. undertakes no
obligation to update any such statements to reflect actual
events.
Company Contact: DigitalTown info@digitaltown.com (952)890-2362
(office)
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