Oakland students receive wireless routers as CISCO reaches out to close 'digital divide'
Article by Niema Jordan.
Last updated at Fri, 4 May at 8:49pm.

Situated in Fruitvale Village, ARISE High School is a small charter with about 200 students. Last year, its graduating class boasted a 100-percent, four-year college acceptance rate.

This success didn't go unnoticed.

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Access Now Computer Help Day Recap Report (Community Voices)
Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Fri, 4 May at 8:41pm.

From Joe Gross and our friends at OTX:  According to Kari Gray, the Access Now Computer Help Day held at Oakland Technology Exchange – West (OTX-West) on Saturday, August 20th was one of the most successful events held - providing tech support and advice to 55 Oakland residents.  We thought it would be informative to tell the story of the

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Computer literacy: Gateway to better employment
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 4 May at 8:40pm.

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ReliaTech offers affordable computers, repairs--and tech job training--to Oakland
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 5 Aug at 8:20am.

We've been fans of Reliatech and head honcho Ben Delaney for a while. After all, what's not to like with a program that trains locals how to get jobs repairing and managing computers--and then does affordable computer repairs?  But Ben's got news he wants to crow about, so we thought we'd give him a shot.

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