Today, lack of access to information resources in the digital age will bring the same disenfranchisement to those of us who, because of barriers, are not able to use information age tools. What happened in 1863 might be small compared with what could happen in our future. Tremendous growth has occurred, particularly in the last few years, in the number of community technology centers across the nation, both in the disability arena and in general. Nonprofits and for profits are developing programs to fill an enormous national hunger for technology savvy, for using tools which are changing the world in which we live. When we started there were few or no centers like ourselves.
Today there are thousands of community technology centers in cities across the nation and beyond.
But they are there, and they are seeing more people than we could ever hope to see. CTCNet has 250 community technology centers across the nation, located in churches, schools, and community based organizations in unserved and underserved communities. New centers are appearing at an ever increasing rate. Or perhaps there just aren't people with disabilities who also have low incomes. The point is that people with disabilities are not referenced in this report at all.