Get Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. The centers, which opened in late June, feature classes in how to navigate the Internet and in basic programs such as Word and Excel. In addition, Cyber Centers will offer instruction in animation programs such as PowerPoint. The innovation lab also houses Web TV and Web phones. It looks like a great atmosphere.
Any citizen can use the computers and take classes for free.
The city also plans to build a traveling techmobile that will bring computers to residents who are unable to get to the centers. It would enable us to go into any neighborhood. Senior citizens are currently taking classes in the morning, and adult classes will begin later this summer. Cable companies pay franchise fees to cities in exchange for using public spaces to lay their cables. The first community technology center, Playing 2 Win , was established in New York in 1982.