The definition of digital division is the cultural division caused by limited access to computers and internet in today’s society. This division most often affects the people in the low income bracket who cannot afford to purchase a computer or internet access and the elderly, who have not grown up using computers. Many [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘public internet access’
7 March 2008
CAP YI – Community Access Program Youth Initiative
CAP YI is an acronym for Community Access ProgramYouth Initiative. A program that takes 50 young adults, every year, between the ages of fifteen and thirty and hires them for a minimum of four months to work as a part of the CAPprogram at one of the many CAP sites. The CAP sites are dedicated [...]
7 March 2008
CAP – Is Losing Government Funding Really That Bad?
CAP is an acronym for what is known as the Community Access Program, a program committed to helping people of all ages get access and knowledge about computers and their applications, especially the internet. CAP offers what are known as CAP sites, which for the most part are run by volunteers, in which people of [...]
5 March 2008
Public Access
Why is public access to the internet important?
Government support for public access sites? Yes? No?
These are some of the questions that we will be considering at this Friday’s CNET Seminar when Kalia from CAP (Community Access Program) comes to speak to us. The presentation and discussion take place between 11:30am to 12:30pm in Birch [...]
