| Computers Assisting
People (CAP) brings hands-on technology to hundreds of inner city children and adults. Founder and Director of the Project, Dan Hanson is commended for his leadership and his commitment to the community. Over the last few years the CAP program has refurbished about one thousand computers and donated them to schools, senior centers, shelters and other non-profits in the Cleveland area. <p> In 2000 they devised a system to maximize their resources through networking. They identified a number of inner city church and community centers where the congregations and/or leadership were willing to play an active role in setting up the lab and also provide ongoing support. Volunteers were trained to facilitate setting up PCs in a peer-to-peer network to share printers, CD-ROMs and other more rare devices. By the third quarter of the year they had already set up about a dozen training/practice networks in inner city churches and community centers. |