"We're wall to wall people at the moment"

By Stan Saunders

A stone dropped in the water creates ripples that have effects far from the source.

That was the theme of the grand opening of the Pacoima Community Technology Center in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, January 16. Los Angeles City Council President Alex Padilla, a driving force for the project, noted the importance of a technology center in an impoverished region. "It gives adults and parents the skills they need to apply for good jobs, while children will be armed with the knowledge they need to excel in school and attend college. It's a great day for Pacoima, a great day for the San Fernando Valley.

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When I started working on this article, I was hearing a lot of discussion about the Digital Divide and how to best tackle it. But these days, I don't hear much about it. Why is that? It's certainly not because the Digital Divide is solved, or that we have achieved equitable access to digital technology. Then why?

One reason is that the federal government has been directing everyone's attention elsewhere - to the War on Terrorism and the impending attack on Iraq.

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Students from the Long Beach CORAL Youth Institute recently attended an "executive briefing" with Apple Computers. While there, they had the opportunity to tell executives how they could better design the computer company's iBook for elementary schools.

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Community Technology Advocacy Day is an event when community technology supporters convene in Sacramento to introduce their programs to policy makers and advocate on issues important to them. This opportunity to meet policy makers, influence public policies, and unite with others from across the state has been scheduled for March 25, 2003.

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Freeware educational software delivered with recycled computers can assist recipients to get many hours of use from their computer before they feel the need to purchase software of their own.

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By David Guilhufe

The Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA) is a not-for-profit philanthropic organization that grants technology equipment to support digital inclusion for underserved individuals. BFA will award $12.5m in equipment grants to California schools and community-based organizations this year.

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Connections For Tomorrow (C4T) - a collaboration of organizational partners funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - is announcing a pilot award program for the provision of technical assistance services in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts. The purpose of the Capacity Building Assistance Program is to assist faith-based and community-based organizations initiate, improve and/or expand their technology-based social
services programs.

Applications for awards will be accepted from now until February 28, 2003. Potential applicants are encouraged to submit your applications early. For more information about the C4T Capacity Building Assistance Program, as well as the application, visit the C4T website at http://www2.ctcnet.org/c4t/.

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- Phil Shapiro
Arlington, Virginia

(Phil's article, Free Educational Software, has been published in this issue. Thanks, Phil! -Ed.)

With this issue, Technicity Times sends our thanks and best wishes to our founding co-editor, Leslie Goodbar. After playing a pivotal role launching this newsletter, Leslie has moved on to other projects.

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