The America Connects Consortium (ACC) provides technical assistance to CTC projects across the country. The ACC website has assembled a range of resources, tools, guides and web links related to creating and expanding community technology centers. The site also includes a wealth of information and resources related to CTC grantees.

• Contact Information and Links to Community Technology Centers
• Program Information Resources
• Collection of ACC Resources
• Noteworthy Practices: Staff Development for Adult Education Instructors and Technology and Reading Instruction
• Site Visits Conducted in 2003
• Keys to Sustainability: Part One and Part Two

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Related Links and Publications

The U.S. Department of Education program builds on a solid foundation of demonstration, evaluation, and network building already underway. The FY 1999, 2000 and 2001 funding are intended to dramatically expand access to information technology and related services by providing seed-capital for new community technology center start-up.

The National Science Foundation supported CTCNet contains a network of more than 250 community technology centers where people get access to computers and computer-related technology, such as the Internet. This site contains a number of resources including a center start-up manual, research and evaluation, and an extensive set of links to related efforts.

• The Center Start-Up Manual is available online.

• Community Technology Centers: Impact on Individual Participants and Their Communities is available online.

• Impact of CTCNet Affiliates: Findings from a National Survey of Users of Community Technology Centers is available online.

Neighborhood Networks is a community-based initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that encourages the development of resource and computer learning centers in privately owned HUD-assisted and/or -insured housing. These centers work to build self-reliant neighborhoods that meet the needs of lower-income families and seniors where they live. Online are useful publications such as How to Plan for Sustainability, Turn Your TV into a Resource for Neighborhood Networks Centers, and Key Components to a Successful Business Plan.

Community Technology Center Partners

America Connects Consortium
ACC has a wealth of resources on everything from creating a CTC and forging partnerships to developing educational, inclusive programs that prepare people of all ages for the workforce and for life in the information age.

SRI, International
The Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) was established at SRI to look at issues of how to effectively use technologies to support learning.

The purpose of the DDN is to help America bridge the digital divide by facilitating the sharing of ideas, information and creative solutions among industry partners, private foundations, nonprofits, and government.

The Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CLC) program enables schools to stay open longer, providing a safe place for, among other activities, technology education programs for youth and adults.

CAP, Industry Canada's Community Access program, works with urban and rural Canadian communities to take advantage of new communication technologies. CAP's goal is to foster economic, social, and cultural growth in Canada. All CAP sites are community-based, with a variety of provincial, territorial, and national partnerships supporting these local initiatives. Along with the 5,000 rural access sites currently being established, the number of community access sites across Canada is projected to total 10,000 by the year 2000. The site contains a virtual library.

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Partners

America Connects Consortium
ACC has a wealth of resources on everything from creating a CTC and forging partnerships to developing educational, inclusive programs that prepare people of all ages for the workforce and for life in the information age.

SRI, International
The Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) was established at SRI to look at issues of how to effectively use technologies to support learning.

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