About the Network
The Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) is a national membership network of community technology centers (CTCs) and other non-profits, united in their commitment to provide technology access and education to underserved communities. CTCNet works through the CTC Network to provide resources and advocacy to improve the quality and sustainability of CTCs.
Mission
CTCNet was founded on the recognition that in an increasingly technologically dominated society, people who are economically disadvantaged will be left further behind if they are not provided access to and training on information tools.
Our mission is to provide resources and advocacy to improve the quality and sustainability of CTCs for underserved communities.
Vision
A world in which all people have equitable access to technology and the skills necessary to use it meaningfully.
History
CTCNet was founded in 1990, as the Playing to Win Network, by Antonia Stone, a former public school teacher who during the early 1980s had started a computer technology center in the basement of a housing development in Harlem. In the early 1990s, Ms. Stone cooperated with the Educational Development Center (EDC) in an application to the National Science Foundation , which resulted in a five-year grant to support the extension of the network's services, the expansion of its membership and its evolution into an independent, self-governing nonprofit organization. At the start of the grant the organization's name was changed to the Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet).
In 2000, CTCNet incorporated as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization in Massachusetts with a National Board of Directors representing its member organizations. In November 2003, CTCNet moved its National Office to Washington, DC. Learn more about CTCNet's accomplishments in its 15-year history. Milestones »
Latest Activities
Read about CTCNet and CTCNet Member activities in our latest newsletter to the network. CTCNetwork News »
2008 CTCNet Conference Survey Summary Preliminary Results
2007 CTCNet Member Demographics Survey