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Landgate donated a number of second hand laptops to the Mowanjum Aboriginal Community in 2012 as part of a program to improve computer and internet access and overcome the gross disadvantage the Aboriginal people in remote areas suffer.
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Donates its second hand Laptops for the Mowanjum Indigenous Community - 2013
Report by
Dr Richard Smith Volunteer Boab
Network
MowanjumNew Derby Prison
Derby-Broome Highway
Gibb River Road
Mission: Saving Kids from ending up in Prison
In a shed in the Mowanjum Community we have created a Community Resource Centre through Rt Hon Brendon Grylls’ excellent Royalities for Regions initiative
2010: single Telstra line into the Community (1)2011 -12: Community Resource Centre with 27 Laptops with wireless internet (2)2013: Laptops in the home with WiFi internet access (3).
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Donated Laptops from Landgate
• 10 HP Laptops donated by Landgate• 1 Laptop had no Hard Disk, another failed DVD
drive• 8 HP Laptops installed with Vista OS• Windows activation with existing Product keys • 6 Laptops deployed to homes at Mowanjum• 1 Laptop went missing and one failed.• Clients were very happy and impressed. • Thank you Landgate
Configuration• Vista• Admin and User accounts• Microsoft Office 2000• Vista Games• Internet Explorer• Firefox with Video download add on• Adobe Flash Player• Microsoft security essentials• TP-Link USB Wireless Adaptor for WiFi internet access• VLC media player for all formats
Eddie Bear with Shontae giving instructions on downloading songs from You Tube
Parabolic WiFi kitchen sieve doubles signal strength of USB wireless adaptor received from the Community Resource Centre for the Laptop in Eddie’s house.
Shontae Charles
Amelia Hurrell
Tarika Foote
Tina Marvin
Geneva Watson
Parabioic WiFi dish developed using a stainless Kitchen Bowl from Woolworths, Derby for Marion and Vincent Bear’s house. Another was installed Jan 2013 on Denise and Arnie Bradshaw’s house to provide 4 /5 bar signal strength.
WiFi aerials installed on the Community Resource Centre (Left) and on the Mowanjum Office Building to provide Community Internet access using Arinda surf easy internet cafe software.
The Team
Lorel Holmes, Manager
Nadia, Bookeeper
Steve Austin, CEO
Eddie, Chairman Dr Richard Smith
Ian Wiesse, IT Guru
Thank You Landgate for your 2nd hand Laptops
Now there are another 50 residents at Mowanjum asking
for a 2nd hand Laptop