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. Involves using the link at Manhattan Public Library to serve as a way to communicate a wide range of community information services. Computer users both in and outside of the immediate community would have access to information about the Manhattan community and surrounding areas. Links the local community to the global network.