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Coming soon for Low Income Folks. . . .Free Internet access and Other Perks
So what do you think? Is it a good use...Or will the payoff of better skilled and trained people be worth it?
Please discuss.
The Tampa Housing Authority has secured a $2.1 million federal grant to provide broadband Internet access to 23 public housing sites. Details are being finalized with Bright House Networks, which will provide the service, and residents will be connected beginning March 1.
The project will be the first such one in Florida and one of the few in the nation.
Internet access will be available to about 3,400 residents for free for the first two years. After two years, residents will be able to pay for the access for the next three years for $18.35 per month.
In addition to having Internet access, the housing authority also will make available a selection of computer training options, including basic computer and Internet keyboarding, Microsoft A+ Certification and an online computer curriculum for school-age children.
The program also will help residents get computers of their own by offering 1,000 computers for only $125 and will install almost 200 computers in two communities to offer residents a designated work space. The authority also will launch a website for residents to provide information on housing, employment opportunities, and the like.
Coming soon to Tampa public housing: Free Internet access
I'm all for keeping the great masses ignorant.
seriously, why train a population to do better when we can loutsource everything?