I think an inventory would be really really good. We have an ewaste recycling/reuse program and we have given 1500+ computers to individuals who would not otherwise afford one.
Karen Keppler Morgan Sully wrote: >Claude, >This is awesome! Have you shared this elsewhere? Is Phil Shapiro on >here? This totally sound like something he'd do. A 'Phil Shapiro' :) > >M > >.+ Morgan Sully +. >Online Communities >Electronic Music >New Media >http://www.memeshift.com > >On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:17 PM, "Claude Almansi" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Foo HK >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Perhaps all members can enlighten the rest of us what measures are >>>we taking to close the digital divide. >>> >>>Many people, like global warming tend to talk and talk only but no >>>action. We call them NATO ...No Action Talk Only. In the end, the >>>artic summer would be without ice anyway (latest news)...first time >>>in history there may not be any Artic ice in Summer. >>> >>>Similarly when we are in digital divide, what concrete actions we >>>know of to overcome such other than just talk? >>> >>>Perhaps each member can contribute to this? >>> >>> >>> >>LOL OK: on a "think globally act locally" line, when I had a nervous >>breakdown last Autumn, I organized what may have been the tiniest >>"telecentre" in the psychiatric hospital where I went: my Mac laptop, >>with NeoOffice (for-Mac version of OpenOffice). Some patients asked me >>how to write a CV or job applications, so I showed them and made >>models. Then there was a young woman, cattle-raiser by trade and >>bloody good amateur photographer, so we went to a café with a wirele >>ss >>connection and she made herself a Picasa picture album. That kind of >>things. >> >>When I left the hospital, I donated an iMac Bondy (vintage 2000) I >>don't really need anymore, to the patients of the section where I had >>been, setting it up with an admin and a user account, showing one of >>them - typographer by trade - how to ... administer the puter. >> >>We made of shared-files folder with the CV and letter templates, plus >>a series of recipes (in that section, we cooked our evening meals >>though we ate lunch at the hospital mensa), And I made a VERY BASIC >>tutorial on the use of the puter ("Top right on any window, there's a >>blue circle with a magnifying glass. Click on it to open a search >>application in order to find files you have mislead. At the bottom of >>any window, you'll see a series of symbol: it's called "Dock" and the >>symbols are for the most frequently used programs, plus possibly other >>programs you're using" - end of tutorial). >> >>Then we made a users log form, with a column to write down possible >>glitches and one for number of pages printed. >> >>I mean, folks end up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of reasons >>- but one fairly frequent one here in Switzerland is job problems, >>often caused in turn by lack of IT training. So if they are >>hospitalized for a certain length of time, it's a good occasion to >>catch up on this. One young woman had never touched a keyboard or a >>mouse, but she wanted to get a computer when she came out, though she >>had little money to spare for one. So we got permission to go to the >>Centro Sociale Autogestito Il Molino >><http://isole.ecn.org/molino/sito/index.php> in Lugano, so that she >>could try their refurbished computer with Ubuntu and OpenOffice, >>Firefox ecc. Being virgin of either Windows or Mac influences, she >>never batted an eyelid and started working there alone. >> >>'s all for recent activities in that field. But I promised I'd go back >>to the patients' association, Club 74, for a workshop on how to >>introduce beginners to computers, based on the KISS principle - >><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle> ;-) >> >>Best >> >>Claude Almansi >>_______________________________________________ >>DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >>DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net >>http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >>To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net >http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE >in the body of the message. > > > > -- Karen Keppler MBA Managing Partner, Cathedral Group 511 Robinson Ave.,Selkirk, MB R1A 1E5 Phone: (204) 482 2115 Fax: (204) 589 3800 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.cathedral.mb.ca _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
