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Exciting New Internet Project
Published April 03rd 2008, Posted in Northland / 3 CommentsTiaho Trust has launched the ‘Empowerment Online” project aimed at assisting disabled people to connect to Information, Communication, Technology.
What does Empowerment Online mean?
Empowerment Online is aiming to increase the capability of disabled people and their whanau to access the wealth of information available to them via the internet.
In turn we believe that this will provide the opportunity for people to become knowledgeable and empowered to make decisions that will impact positively on their daily lives and promote inclusion in their local and ‘virtual’ communities.
How will Empowerment Online help me?
The Empowerment Online project is about providing the means for individuals to access and use technology. We will make this happen by:
- Working with you face to face to determine what you want to get out of learning to use computer technology and accessing the internet, and what you need to achieve this. We have employed a Web Technology Facilitator who will find out what your current computer abilities are and help you to determine what goals you hope to achieve by participating in the project.
- He will also talk to you about what barriers you might encounter using the computer and what assistive technology you might need to make it easier for you to use the computer and achieve your gaols.
- Each person participating in the project will have their own plan and work at their own pace.
- Tiaho Trust is determining locations where internet technology will be available for you to use. We are aiming to make this project available to you in several locations throughout Northland.
- Tiaho Trust has been involved in the development of two websites, tiaho.org.nz and supportoptions.co.nz with information that is important to disabled people’s lives. As part of your participation in the project you will access the information available and through your feedback, contribute to the ongoing improvement of these two sites.
I am interested so how do I get in touch?
You can contact the Internet Facilitator, Matthew Lewis at Tiaho Trust on 09 430 3406 or free phone on 0800 430 3406 or email
3 Comments
ASL is a trust for people with intellectual disablities in Auckland.
your project sounds awesome.
do u know if anyone is doing a simiar thing in auckland?
thanks
best regards
leonie
Great to hear from you Leonie,
Not to our knowledge. This is a fairly new and cutting edge project in the disability sector. What you could do is contact the Auckland Disability Resource Centre who are the generic Disability Information Advisory Service providers.
The other option is to look at provider organisations who have vocational contracts with the Ministry of Social Development who provide individualized support into community participation and can partner people up with community groups (if there are any).
Hope this helps
Hey guys,
The CP Society in Auckland does something similar, it’s called the “Get Connected” project - check out http://cpsociety.org.nz/ for more info
-Red
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Thanks Gail and Tiaho Trust for posting this information. I do hope people from the Northland can attend. Let me know if you require transport and I’ll see what I can do. Keep smiling, Mark