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Looking for community technology centers (CTCs) in California? CTCFinder can help. Search the online database for CTCs that offer what you're looking for.
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The goal of the Community Technology Center (CTC) movement is to decrease the digital divide by providing community-based computer training facilities. In this section of TechSoup, you'll find suggestions, insights, and resources to assist with your hardware and software decisions, staffing, curriculum, program design, fundraising, and other aspects of running a CTC.
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How Oakland's Eastmont Computing Center is helping to revitalize — and connect — a community.
Learn how to help your constituents and protect your computers.
Discover techniques for keeping your computers humming and your patrons happy.
How CTCs can ensure the technical and physical security of their computers.
Strategies for reducing maintenance hassles on public machines.
Advice to help you choose software or hardware for your computer lab.
Answers to a handful or frequently asked questions about content filtering solutions.
Teens For Technology brings computer labs to the country's schools.
National nonprofit provides Web access, online content, and training to low-income communities.
BAYCAT offers life, job training to kids and adults in low-income area of San Francisco.
Tips for keeping your program up and running during tough economic times.
A nonprofit teaches immigrant and low-income Latina women computer literacy.
India's UCTC provides locals with free computer training, access to a better job, and a better life.
The tsunami in South Asia demonstrates the importance of promoting technology literacy.
Training is important. That's why we've composed a list of inexpensive or free training resources.
Staff training can make all the difference in the success of your CTC program.
A video program can be a creative and powerful tool for teaching youth.
This guide contains resources, links, and references for system administration tasks.
This toolkit provides lessons and workshops in basic system administration.
This toolkit provides lessons on system administration, along with links and resources.
What is the digital divide, and why does it matter?
Community technology centers can help fight poverty and improve the lives of underserved people.
Find out how to obtain startup or ongoing funding for your community technology center.
Learn about The Morino Institute's ten-point plan for eliminating the digital divide.
Learn how a positive learning environment is supported by people, interactions, and values.
When integrating computers into your lesson plans, your teaching skills are what count the most.
Don't be fooled -- the way to bridge the digital divide is through education, not technology.
Involve kids in the process of making learning decisions through an inquiry-based learning approach.
Learn to plan a successful youth technology learning program with this easy guide.
Identify specific partnerships in your neighborhood, and what resources can be useful to the CTC.
Tips for making your community technology center a success.
Find out how to make sure youth, not technology, take center stage in your CTC.
Our best weapon against the Digital Divide is recognizing it as a gap in opportunity.
If you're thinking of creating a CTC, here are some keys for success.
Go online to find resources for teaching, running a technology center, and more.
