Available and open to the public. Economically self-sustaining over time. Promote community problem solving through online and face to face collaboration. Promote community development, including economic development. Promote and teach technical literacy.
Funds are necessary to remodel the space and to purchase hardware, software, and furnishings.
Continue to explore alternative funding sources allowing CORE to become a self-sustaining organization or become assimilated into an existing organization s management structure. Telecommunications is creating one single global economy, but at the same time empowering individuals and small groups by providing them opportunities that only big companies had before. Many small players are global forces today. At its inception, CORE proposed to expand access to and awareness of technology, including Internet and the worldwide web, to residents of Manhattan and Riley County via three major components. The first of these components has been accomplished.