Our Community Capacity Plan
WC-SGA Free-Net
1.Impact of Free-Net
A. Flood of 94
B. First free community Internet in Georgia.
C. Since Then:
1. Telecommunication Conference held in Sylvester.
2. National Recognition, Newsweek, "Wired in the Woods",June 26, 1995,
3. United States digital e-mail Democracy Day participant, 1995.
4. U.S, Dept. of Commerce guest Panelist, 1995, Athens, GA.
5. Georgia School of Technology study "Ring Around Georgia"
6. Study comparing three levels of Free-Nets, Rural to City.
7. Wiring of our schools for the Internet.
8. Public Library used Free-Net until E-rate.
9. Distant Learning Lab at HS.
10. Language Arts computer Lab.
11. EDA funded by US Dept. of Comm.-Digital Economy Demonstration Grant.
12. Housing Authority grant for computer lab.
13. Local technology school setup remote training in Worth Co.
14. WC Baptist Hospital is implementing Video Conferencing.
II. Innovativeness:
A. Information Already Available Online.
-Click on Futurism-
1. Link to "Communities of the Future"
2. What is Digital Economy
3. Our Grant Proposal
4. 21st Century Empowerment Zones
5. 21st Century Communities
6. 21st Century Community
7. GA First Free-Net "Tools"
8. 21st Century Learning Community Proposal
9. Harnessing the Digital Economy
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10. Configuring Netscape
11. Win 95 Dialer Setup
12. Ms Explorer for Win 3.1
13. Ie v4 setup E-mail
14. How to use a Listserver
15. Free-Net Web page Editor
B. Information to be placed Online. (See III.)
III.Proposed Use of Award
1. Develop Training, Printing of 150 manuals, & certificates
2. Training classes (15 sessions)
3. Develop and Printing of 1,500 User Manuals
4. Web Placement
Worth-Net
