Estatecomputers.net

On Carlton Community Website

Estate Computers
Is a Social enterprise which provides the residents of Carlton Housing Estate and the surrounding estates in Melbourne and some rural Estates.Refurbished Computers with ginuine Microsoft Windows 7 and Office Software.

Estate Computers aims to improve the access to and training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the residents of Carlton.
With the ever increasing interest and dependence on IT in the Australian society, the project is particularly aimed public housing residents who have not previously had the opportunities to engage with IT.
This includes young people, the elderly and recently arrived migrant communities.Estate Computers was established through the cooperation of local community agencies the City of Melbourne’s Opportunities for Carlton project and The University of Melbourne.
The project was originally funded by the Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) and assisted by the donations of computers from the Department of Human Services (DHS) through the Public Tenant Employment Program (PTEP).
Estate Computers offers a range of IT initiatives for Carlton housing estate residents including:
• Comprehensive free computer training
• The sale of low cost refurbished computers
• Computer assembly training
• liaison with the University of Melbourne in the development of volunteer resources for the project
• Increased community Internet access points in Carlton.

Who to Contact:

To purchase a refurbished computer or receive computer training please register your interest with one of the following ways by filling out a registration form (also available from the website):

To buy a computer
Estate Computers:
Hamdi Ali
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 10am - 5pm
Ground floor, next to the CHERS, Community hall, 510 Lygon St, Carlton
Phone:03 9999 6617.
Email: hamdi.ali@estatecomputers.net
Computer training:
Estate Computers has a Partnership with
Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre to provide Computer Training.

Please Contact:
Sarah Deasey:
20 Princes St, Carlton North
Phone: 9347 7072.
Computer, Internet Access & Volunteering:
Contact:
Hamdi
at Estate computers

The Good people of the Web team from University of Melbourne did Wonders to the Estate Computers.

Below are some photos of before and after.

Delegates Visit Estate Computers

A relatively large Delagate Visited The Estate Computers Recently. Delagates was made of City Of Melbourne Bendigo Bank, DHS (PTEP) Church of all Nations and University of Melbourne staff and students.

Craig Ondarchie MP at Estate Computers, Carlton

Hon. Craig Ondarchie MP Visiting the Estate Computers at Carlton and chating with The Trainor Joe and some of his students.

Adam Bandt MP, Federal Member for Melbourne.

The Honorable Adam Bandt MP, Federal Member for Melbourne and Deputy Leader of the Greens.
Adam Visited us here in Carlton as he did a number of times previously.
He saw first hand the work we do here. He was impressed by the amount of activity and the change to the shop since he saw it last.

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