A year ago the Overberg District Municipality established a Youth Centre in Caledon. The Youth Centre received some second hand PCs from Holland to be used in the Centre as access points to the internet.
Personnel from the Overberg District Municipality helped by setting up a LAN with ADSL access to the Internet for 10 PCs.
At this stage everything stopped because no money was budgeted for software on the PCs. Open Source software like Linux and Open Office was considered, but the skills to do the training on the Open Source software was lacking.
Joggie Snyman from the Overberg District Municipality (LOGICT ExCom member) contacted Michael Arendse from the City of Cape Town (LOGICT ExCom member) who is a big supporter of Open Source products for assistance. Michael put Joggie in contact with Nathan Momsen from Business Data Solutions.
Shortly thereafter, Joggie had an on site meeting with Business Data Solutions to inspect the infrastructure and to discuss a possible way forward as there was no budget to work with.
A few days later, Joggie received a report from Business Data Solutions with implementation, control and training plans which would be sponsored by the City of Cape Town.
Thanks to the contact built up through LOGICT, Joggie Snyman, Michael Arendse, Business Data Solutions and the City of Cape Town, the Youth Centre is now up and running as can been seen from the accompanying photos.
Joggie Snyman’s effort to try and assist the youth of Caledon has resulted in an asset for the Youth Centre and access to the internet for those who could not afford it.
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