Richard Koffler

Alelo is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) avatar-based learning solutions for corporate, government, and academic applications. Using cloud-based AI simulations, learners engage in interactive conversations with socially intelligent virtual humans in a realistic setting. They role-play with avatars as often as they like on a mobile device, desktop, or virtual reality headset. Immediate feedback provides personal instruction on how to improve. When encountering a real-world situation, learners are confident and adept. Alelo’s online learning methods are transforming the way people acquire real-world skills worldwide. Alelo is a Hawaiian word meaning “tongue” or “language”. It also refers to the tip of a traditional Hawaiian canoe paddle, the leading edge that cuts the water and propels the canoe forward. It is the perfect name for a lead-edge company that promotes interpersonal skills. We chose Hawaii as a theme because it is a cultural crossroads – where people of diverse backgrounds respect and embrace each other’s traditions and work together harmoniously.

OUR VISION: That every non-literate Spanish speaker have the opportunity to learn to read and write.

Alelo is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) avatar-based learning solutions for corporate, government, and academic applications. Using cloud-based AI simulations, learners engage in interactive conversations with socially intelligent virtual humans in a realistic setting. They role-play with avatars as often as they like on a mobile device, desktop, or virtual reality headset. Immediate feedback provides personal instruction on how to improve. When encountering a real-world situation, learners are confident and adept. Alelo’s online learning methods are transforming the way people acquire real-world skills worldwide. Alelo is a Hawaiian word meaning “tongue” or “language”. It also refers to the tip of a traditional Hawaiian canoe paddle, the leading edge that cuts the water and propels the canoe forward. It is the perfect name for a lead-edge company that promotes interpersonal skills. We chose Hawaii as a theme because it is a cultural crossroads – where people of diverse backgrounds respect and embrace each other’s traditions and work together harmoniously.

A biomedical start-up company, based in Los Angeles, California, whose focus is the creation of new technologies and products that will complement or even replace stethoscopes with high-performance, ultra-handheld, medical-ultrasound devices for hospital, clinic, field and home care.

The CETF mission: close the Digital Divide in California by accelerating the deployment and adoption of broadband and other advanced communications services to unserved and underserved communities. CETF is a unique organization in the nation—no other state has a non-profit with a primary mission to close the Digital Divide by addressing the challenges of both “supply” and “demand” to increase the use of technologies enabled by ubiquitous high-speed Internet access. A vital catalyst, CETF brings diverse stakeholders together—elected officials and policymakers, regional and local civic leaders, community-based organizations (CBOs) and broadband providers—to address the challenges and many facets of the Digital Divide collectively. CETF concluded the first 10 years of operation in 2017 and published the Decade Report (www.cetfund.org). The Progress Report 2020 charts a course the new 5-Year Strategic Plan to achieve Digital Equity and documents accomplishments through 2020. Overall CETF 5 year Goals A hallmark of CETF is a disciplined focus on outcomes and accountability for results. The 5-Year Strategic Plan continues a focus on aggressive Overall Goals to achieve at least: • 98% Deployment in Each Region • 90% Adoption Statewide CETF also strives to build capacity in other public and private institutions to incorporate Digital Inclusion policies and practices into their ongoing operations and programs. This is called “institutionalization” so that Digital Equity is “rooted” into the organizational culture and actively pursued by all public agencies and major organizations that serve large numbers of low-income households and other disadvantaged populations. Metrics for Success • Reach Overall Goal of 98% deployment and 90% adoption • Digital Inclusion incorporated into public policy with active leadership to implement. • Institutionalized capacity in existing institutions and agencies with embedded practice in anchor institutions to assist clients with bro