Australian government allocates millions to maintain kiosk p
发布日期：2011-05-13 16:11 浏览次数：
The Australian government will provide $10.4 million over four years for the ongoing maintenance of the 2,000 broadband kiosks set up around the country to help senior citizens use the Internet.
The government committed $15 million between 2008 and 2011 to the program. The Australian Seniors Computers Clubs Association and University of the Third Age Online, was awarded a $15 million contract in November 2008 to install and operate 200 kiosks around Australia.
Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association and the University of the Third Age Australia (U3A) were providing face-to-face training materials and online training respectively, with rollout coordination by Adult Learning Australia. Rollout commenced in September 2009, and the project was completed in February this year.
More than 90,000 older Australians have used the 2,000 Broadband for Seniors kiosks, and more than a third had never used a computer before, and almost half had never used the internet.
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