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Toronto Community Cultural Centre A Home For Creative Opportunity
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The TFN provides basic access to email, web, usenet news and community information on a by-donation basis to all citizens. TFN was incorporated July 16, 1993 with the express purpose of providing these services and has been doing so since that time. When we started, we were fortunate to receive government support. Our assistance under that grant ended in mid 1998 and since then we have operated on a continuous basis through volunteer and private sector support. This is one of the most distinctive qualities of the Toronto FreeNet: it is a service for and by its community. Unlike commercial internet sites, the content and direction of services are driven by the community. It literally will not work without you. So how can you offer your support? more>> Toronto Free Net CAP Network One of the key advantages of TFN is that it is a non profit Internet Service Provider which has over the years developed technology strengths in network engineering, systems administration, and software development. We believe that these are the strengths an organization needs to have in order to ensure the sustainability network of CAP sites over the long term. TFN has secured through partnerships in the private sector, resources which allow it to offer modern standards of remote Internet access. TFN will continue to support the original simple text-based interface for members who prefer to continue to use rudimentary equipment. Vision impaired members sometimes find TFN's text-based interface superior to more expensive solutions. A number of our existing members from the disabled community have come to depend on our service. In the area of software development, we currently are working on a next generation internet application to facilitate community based internetworking. As we move forward with the CAP, we will incorporate a systems management component in the software to perform remote administration of sites. Given this background, we believe that we bring
with us a unique perspective to "plan to sustain the site or
network" . We have taken care to research and select the proposed
public access sites in order to maximize the benefits to the greatest
number of participants - especially those meant to benefit most
from the CAP initiative. We are proud to introduce our CAP Network
Partners with this website. To find out more about them, follow
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