Tani asked about RTPnet's previous conferences. RTPnet conferences focused on collaboration among nonprofit organizations, individual volunteers, and corporations to bridge the Triangle's Digital/Human Divide. Looking at the agendas, we are still talking about the same basic problems.
All the notes and stuff are at http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/projects.html#conf
Here are some highlights:
2005: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf05/website/schedu...
- Corporate volunteer programs
- Free computer equipment and training (including GCF Learning)
2004: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf04/summary.html
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools: Lessons Learned, Home Loaner Project, Parents have to buy in to having this tool in the house. ...
- Future for NC Information Infrastructure Networks
Meeting Needs for Recycling
- Tech LinkUp: a service that links together technology needs and resources to support nonprofit organizations. (didn't work out)
2003: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf03/summary.html
- Developing Basic Computer Skills and Making It Fun!
- LEARN North Carolina
- Getting Connected through CTC LinkUp (became Tech LinkUp, didn't work out)
- Computing Equipment for Nonprofits, Schools, Homes
2002: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf02/summary.html
- Community Technology Center Startup Resources -- reusing computers, Connect 2 School
- Free online teaching materials
- Volunteerism: What It Takes To Run NCCU's Programs (and info about their TOP grant)
- Help Desk Startup (a good idea that didn't work out)
- Collaboration and Brain-storming: Breakout Sessions
September 2001: Community Technology for NC (CTNC), regional conference at NCCU, Terry Grunwald:
http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/ctnc/ctcconf/homepage...
http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/ctnc/ctcconf/homepage...
http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/ctnc/ctcconf/agenda.html
March 2001: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf01/rtpconf.html
- Programs for Children, Teens, and Senior Citizens
- Using Technology to Teach Adult Literacy
- The Role of Community Technology in Welfare to Work Transitional Programs
- Developing Computer Competency After School to Earn a Computer
2000: http://www.ibiblio.org/rtpnet/archives/conferences/conf00/rtpconf00.shtml
- 21st Century Learning Centers, Raleigh
- Family literacy: teaching parents to use computers to help their children learn
- Managing volunteers