Author
RobbieS
The ‘Computer Club House’.
Getting kids from disadvantaged areas to work with the latest
technology with the help/training of MIT volunteers. Support learning through design Experience. Just experimentation and exploration, two-way feedback between kids and volunteers. Would like to evolve a model that integrates it with university. That the club house is about building confidence.
Integrated Area Plan – objective to bring about sustainable urban regeneration… Club House was Digital Hub’s (MLE’s) connection back to the community. Intel provide the funding, and the community run it. Support from America, Ramallah (Palestine) and other places worldwide (Latin America and Australia). MLE, Trinity, NCAD all provide volunteers to teach.
Crossing the digital divide. No point in just throwing technology at poverty. There has to be a meeting of the waters between the haves and have-nots. No-one brings people from disadvantaged areas to the pcs in their vicinity to show them how to use them.
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Ireland