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