CTC's were originally funded by US HUD I believe. This led to the creation of the non profit CTCNet which still exists. Now that the HUD funding is gone, CTC's explore for alternative means of funding. http://www.ctcnet.org/ Differing projects in the context of libraries would suggest tech centers funded by the FCC ERATE program. The ERATE program substantially supports telecom and Internet access in schools and libraries - but conditions that funding on compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act. There are additional conditions to ERATE funding such as turning that technology into like a neighborhood ISP. You could not use ERATE I believe to set up for example a municipal network based on Libraries - where you could do something like that with CTCs. So --- one distinction is funding and the restrictions imposed by the different sources of fudning. www.cybertelecom.org/usf/funding.htm --- Kevin Guidry <krguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/12/06, Michel J. Menou <Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
What I'm wondering is whether this is an anomalous
situation or part
of a larger trend. I'm aware that numerous public libraries house Community Technology Centers, but I have no information on how many of these began life as independent projects and how many were library initiatives from the start.
Can you please offer a working definition for "Community Technology Centers?" I assume you are speaking of projects that differ appreciably from traditional computer labs or computing clusters. Pending a firm definition, there are two trends that may may relate to this topic:
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