Thu Sep 09 2010
OAKWOOD -- Arthur Telephone Co., to celebrate Connect Ohio/Ohio Telecom Association Digital Day this past Monday, has donated a new computer valued at $500 to the Cooper Community Library in Oakwood, a branch of the Paulding County Carnegie Library.
The purpose for the computer donation is to offer Paulding County students improved access to the Internet outside of school hours.
"Arthur Mutual Telephone is pleased to give in such a way the entire community can benefit," said Eric Roughton, general manager at the local company.
The Connect Ohio No Child Left Offline program is underwritten through a donation from the Ohio Telecom Association (OTA), a trade association that promotes the common interests of telecommunications companies serving and employing Ohioans. Arthur Mutual holds memberships in OTA as well as Connect Ohio, a public-private partnership that works with technology-minded businesses, government entities and universities to accelerate technology in the state and close the digital divide.
Connect Ohio generated $100,000 for the distribution of 400 computers to Ohio students and community computing centers through Gov. Ted Strickland's No Child Left Offline initiative, which enables access to the advantages of broadband inclusion by providing personal computers to disadvantaged students.
The program highlights the needs of more than 2.6 million Ohioans who cannot participate in the economic, educational, health and social advantages of a broadband economy simply because they don't own a computer.
Connected Nation's economic impact study in February 2008 showed that a 7 percent increase in the adoption of broadband could generate or save: 96,000 jobs, valued at $3.6 billion; $25.4 million in health care savings; and $247.9 million in energy cost savings.
"Research reveals that thousands of Ohio students are missing the opportunity to participate in the educational, economic and civic opportunities presented by having access to the Internet," said Connect Ohio executive director Tom Fritz.
"While disadvantaged students are nearly as likely to use computers in school as their peers from families of higher socioeconomic status, only 37 percent of disadvantaged students utilize computers at home compared to 76 percent of those peers of higher socioeconomic status," Fritz said.
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