Apply for broadband access in your Community and get a FREE Computer from WetinBe!!

• This is a great opportunity to be part of the world’s largest broadband rollout so take this offer NOW to ensure you are part of a wonderful opportunity to advance technology and education for all in your community regardless of age or circumstances.
• To enable your Community to obtain the equipment and Internet Access you need get your community to agree in a meeting some simple objectives.

What is a Social Access Link?
A Social Access Link (SAL) is a place in your community where you can go to find information and do things relevant to you using ICT!!

What would you like to be able to do?
Education? Gist!! with friends? Email Friends abroad? Find a Business? Find a Job! Make Music? Find Farm Prices? Find Outlets for your goods? Learn Something New? Shopping? Help with Homework?
You can do this and much more, right here in your community in partnership with Wetinbe.

You can do it!!
A Social Access Link will give you all the help and advice to set up a complete Internet enabled computer in your area. You can easily add additional computers onto our network to create a Community Internet Café, that is run and owned by the Community, with profits invested back into the Community.

Less than 1% of the population has home internet broadband access that will help them in every day life. A Social Access Link  gives that access to everyone. This puts your community right up there with every other Community in the world, that sees Access to the Internet as a right.
Access for all to Information and Services

A Social Access Link (SAL) can give everyone instant access to local information and services, including Government Services, E-mail services, Business services, local news and a Community notice board. Using Wetinbe Gist!! you can also chat and send messages and photos to friends around the world, often for FREE.
If you wish you could use a computer, but feel they are too complicated, then think again. Computers open up life enhancing possibilities. For experienced users, without home computer access to the internet, A community access can offer total internet access.

What can you have on a Social Access Link (SAL)?
You can add extra computers to the one we will give you, as well as software to do virtually anything. WetinBe gives you access to the Internet and it is up to your community to decide what it wants to use it for. For instance, a local hotel might want it to take bookings, and can have its clients use the Internet from the hotel, but a local farmer might need it to check farm commodity prices, on the Community Computer, and a young family can use it to send pictures to their family around the world.

How do you get it?
You need to print this brochure out and arrange a meeting from which a Steering Group of local people will be formed with a wide spread of ages and interests.
The Steering Group will then decide where the equipment will be sited, and report to WetinBe on why they want it and how they will make it accessible to all.

What is the Steering Group responsible for?
The Steering Group is responsible for agreeing the best site for the computer and satellite dishes (if required) within the community.
This location could be a Church, School, or Community Hall.
For the first 2 years the Steering Group will look after the equipment and ensure it is made available to all.
The Steering Group will ensure that financial sustainability options are reasonable and that the Community will pay all access charges to the Internet.
In subsequent years the Steering Group will assume ownership on behalf of the Community and ensure all costs are met.

What the Social Access Link (SAL) can do:
The Community Access is a total Village resource giving personal Internet access, accessibility to Jobs and Learning Opportunities, Leisure Pursuits, Local News and Community Information.

Why is it available?
Because Wetinbe believes that your Community deserves the same access to the World Wide Web (Internet) as everyone else in the world.
WetinBe does not want your community to be left behind in this era of Information Technology.

Is there a Cost for the Internet Equipment?
Yes. Your community will have to contribute towards the purchase of the Internet equipment and raise funds to do this locally. Other Grants may be available to support the Cost.
We will advise you on detailed costs when we see your proposal, but it is usual for Wetinbe to contribute about 50% of the installation costs of the Installation as part of its Community Philosophy.

What help is available?
The WetinBe Social Access team will be available to support you during the setting up period. This support will include help in:

* Forming your steering Group
* Setting up the facility
* Training
* Technical Support
* Finding Sustainability Options

Put Simply....

* Form a Steering Group
* Find a suitable location
* Show your Community wants it
* Raise a contribution towards your commitment
* And in 2 weeks you will be able to have full Internet access to your Community, and be able to proudly display the Social Access Link (SAL) Logo in your Community