Community Computer Refurbishing Center Program

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• Community Computer Refurbishing Center Program

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About the Program
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• Partnership with Heres Life Inner City and
  TechMission
• TechExchange serves as a template for
• Other ministries to start a community tech center
• Current tech centers to expand their offerings
• Churches/ministries/organizations to develop into
  a more wholistic program
• I.e. TechExchange-Los Angeles, TechExchange-Santa
  Ana, TechExchange-Chicago, etc.

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About the Program contd
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• The TechExchange center is in the warehouse of
  Heres Life Inner City-Los Angeles and
  prioritizes students from the HLIC ministry
  network and AC4 members. We facilitate a train
  the trainers approach.
• TechExchange can take on a variety of aspects.
  We are focusing on technology training and
  hardware redistribution.
• Technology Training
• We are beginning with a computer refurbishing
  focus
• We are a Microsoft Authorized Refurbishing Center

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About the Program Technology Training
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• Personal Computing 101- Build your own computer
• 4 weeks/4 hours per week
• Week One Hardware Introduction
• Week Two Hardware Build a Computer
• Week Three Installing and using Windows
• Week Four Installing and learn an office suite
  (Open Office, Star Office, etc.)

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About the Program Technology Training contd

• The TechExchange classes are all low cost (not no
  cost)
• Maintains a train the trainers approach
• All classes have a strong hands-on emphasis

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Personal Computing 101 Week One

• Look inside the box
• - What is a motherboard
• - Whats the difference between RAM/ROM
• - Whats a CD, Floppy, and a Hard Disk
• What are all these other boards for?
• Look outside the box
• Keyboard, Mouse
• Monitor
• Printer

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Personal Computing 101 Week Two
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• Take our Computer apart
• Rebuild it
• Once its built, does it work?
• It works, great. If it doesnt, lets
  troubleshoot
• - Open it up and make sure everything is
  connected
• - Make sure CPU and Ram are seated properly
• - Make sure all cards are seated properly

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Personal Computing 101 Week Three

• Operating Systems
• Windows what is it
• Now we know what it is, lets install it
• Now, its installed, what do we do now?
• My Computer
• Windows Explorer
• Internet Explorer

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Personal Computing 101 Week Four

• Star Office
• Install it
• Its installed
• Brief intro to word processing
• - Brief intro to spreadsheet

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About the Program Hardware Redistribution

• The redistribution component will happen two
  primary ways
• Each Personal Computing 101 student will have an
  opportunity to earn a free computer
• The remaining computers will be granted to local
  ministries and AC4 members seeking to begin or
  expand their technology usage and programs

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Case Study An Inner City Pastor

• Los Angeles, CA
• 81 years old
• No previous computer training, only some word
  processing
• Never been on the Internet
• Learned how to take a computer apart and put it
  back together. And it worked!
• Went out of his way to make it to class
• Took computer to his church and started using it
  immediately.

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About the Need

• Whos not online
• Adults with low levels of overall education - 87
  of adults (age 25) with less than a high school
  education, and 60 of adults with only a high
  school degree
• Hispanics - 68 of all Hispanics, and 86 of
  Hispanic households where Spanish is the only
  language spoken
• Blacks - 60 of Blacks
• 86.3 of households earning 75,000 and above per
  year had Internet access compared to 12.7 of
  households earning less than 15,000 per year.
• Sources U.S. Department of Commerce, National
  Telecommunications and Information Administration
  (NTIA). A Nation Online How Americans Are
  Expanding Their Use of the Internet, February
  2002
• and Falling Through the Net, 2000
  http//www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fttn00/contents00
  .html

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About the Need contd

• Computers at school
• A far higher percentage of Hispanic (39) and
  Black (45) children rely solely on schools to
  use computers than do Asian and Pacific Islanders
  (11) and White children (15).
• More than twice as many children from
  single-parent families use computers only at
  schools as do children in two-parent families
  41 of children in female-headed households, 32
  in male-headed households, and 17 in households
  with two parents.
• Source U.S. Department of Commerces 2002 Report
  on Internet Access Use http//www.ntia.doc.gov/n
  tiahome/dn/anationonline2.pdf

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About the Need contd

• The future
• Nearly 75 of tomorrow's jobs will require use of
  computers.
• 80 percent of managers and professionals use
  computers at work, compared with 19 percent of
  laborers.
• 94.2 percent of workers with advanced degrees use
  computers, compared with 16.2 percent of high
  school dropouts.
• 54.9 percent of white workers use computers,
  compared with 43.2 percent of black workers and
  32 percent of Hispanic workers.
• Sources AWSEM -"Facts in Brief." AWSEM Gender
  Equity. http//www.awsem.org (2 Feb. 2000) and
  Diane Stafford, Survey shows high volume of
  computer use in U.S. workplaces, The
  Standard-Times October 29, 2002
  http//www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/10-02/10-29-0
  2/l02tr128.htm

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About the Program Contact Us
www.TechExchange.org www.techmission.org
 www.hlic-la.org For more info call or email
Kivi Harris at 323 568-1811 Ext.40
or Kivi.Harris_at_ccci.org Heres Life Inner City
Los Angeles 2501 Industry Way Suite F Lynwood,
CA 90262
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