Goals

Our current goals are to develop a plan that begins to identify ways to improve the quality of life in these communities through the development and deployment of technological initiatives.

The goals include:

• Development of a Multi-Media Learning Lab (called Urban CyberSpace Lab) that is community oriented and creates a technology rich environment where students, parents, small business, and the community at large can use the resources that are provided.
  
  
• Creation of a school district-wide initiative to provide the networking telecommunications infrastructure that gives access to Internet and satellite/distance teaching capabilities.
  
  
• Creation of a teacher oriented lab/facility for technology-based teacher training development.
  
  
• Plan to replicate the district-wide networked telecommunications models to all under served school districts.
  
  
• Plan to create multi-media learning labs and teachers training labs at other locations in New York, Albany, and other cities around the country. We are also interested in development of these facilities overseas.
  
  
• Development of research initiatives that evaluate the impact of technology in urban communities.
  
  
• Creation of a job training and retraining technology facility in under served communities to stimulate economic development.
  
  
• Develop skilled professionals in video production and television producing techniques.
  
  
• Develop World Wide Web (WWW) teams with the Cyberhood Cooperative Learning Project(CCLP) to support Internet and WWW activities.