Marc Andreessen is donating computers to Enoch Pratt Free Library

Amid the gas and riot gear being shown on CNN, Marc Andresseen noted that the library at Pennsylvania and North Avenue stayed open. According to USA Today, it led to the venture capitalist’s latest investment.
According to USA Today, Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen are partnering with Hewlett-Packard to donate $170,000 in computers, printers and other equipment to the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The couple is also donating to a library in Ferguson, Mo., which also stayed open as protests turned violent.
The donation is being framed as part of a growing Silicon Valley effort to address the digital divide. The scene unfolding in Baltimore brought that lack of access into sharp relief for Andreessen.
“We were watching on Ustream individuals filming what was going on on the streets from their iPhones and we had literal direct first-person experiential insight into what was happening in these communities,” Arrillaga-Andreessen told USA Today. “It makes this investment of technology to allow others the same access a no-brainer.”
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