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The Community Computer Center @ Hannan is now open for Hannan House Partners and Participants to use! Our public launch will be Monday, September 19th, so Save the Date!
The CCC@Hannan is a membership public computer center. Membership is free, but patrons need to apply at the front reception. Though the CCC is open to all, we are specifically promoting the CCC as a place for adults and older adults to gain familiarity and skills with computers. Hence, membership is for adults 40 and over. Ages 18-39 can use guest memberships, and under 18 must be accompanied by a Member.
Computers and software for the CCC were paid for with stimulus funds via a BTOP grant received by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) as part of a larger grant to MSU. Hannan is a member of the DDJC. The computers are all new PCs and they run Microsoft Office 2010. One computer will be equipped with JAWS software and a reading lens for patrons who are visually impaired. We have one BSW Graduate of WSU who is volunteering as a CCC Mentor for patrons who are visually impaired, and she is adept at JAWS and working with both seniors and people with disabilities.
Staffing for the CCC is all volunteers! Yes, volunteer power. CCC Mentors and Interns are from Operation ABLE, AARP and Hannan Foundation. Student interns supplement the regular schedule of the CCC Mentors.
The CCC is open Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm. During each day, there is at least one Mentor assigned a 2-hour shift. At all other times, it is "open lab". The Mentor schedule is posted on the CCC wall.
This is a collaborative effort of Operation ABLE, AARP, npserv/NEW, and Hannan Foundation. Please help us make this a true Community Computer Center by encouraging your participants to utilize the CCC and give us feedback! Yes, we are learning what the needs and desires of the patrons are as we go, so we encourage communication.
The Community Computer Center @ Hannan seeks to uphold the Principles of Digital Justice collectively created by the DDJC:
Access
- Digital justice ensures that all members of our community have equal access to media and technology, as producers as well as consumers.
- Digital justice provides multiple layers of communications infrastructure in order to ensure that every member of the community has access to life-saving emergency information.
- Digital justice values all different languages, dialects and forms of communication.
Participation
- Digital justice prioritizes the participation of people who have been traditionally excluded from and attacked by media and technology.
- Digital justice advances our ability to tell our own stories, as individuals and as communities.
- Digital justice values non-digital forms of communication and fosters knowledge-sharing across generations.
- Digital justice demystifies technology to the point where we can not only use it, but create our own technologies and participate in the decisions that will shape communications infrastructure.
Common ownership
- Digital justice fuels the creation of knowledge, tools and technologies that are free and shared openly with the public.
- Digital justice promotes diverse business models for the control and distribution of information, including: cooperative business models and municipal ownership.
Healthy communities
- Digital justice provides spaces through which people can investigate community problems, generate solutions, create media and organize together.
- Digital justice promotes alternative energy, recycling and salvaging technology, and using technology to promote environmental solutions.
- Digital justice advances community-based economic development by expanding technology access for small businesses, independent artists and other entrepreneurs.
- Digital justice integrates media and technology into education in order to transform teaching and learning, to value multiple learning styles and to expand the process of learning beyond the classroom and across the lifespan.
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