One year has passed since Sandy destroyed parts of the East Coast, and now that efforts have been put together to help in the cleanup of the areas affected, Google has decided to do their part.
The company has donated 17,000 Nexus 7's to New Yorkers affected by the storm, and are being placed in libraries, senior centers, businesses, and community centers. They will be used to support multiple programs, including those outlined by Governor Cuomo earlier in the week:
• Libraries will use the tablets in job training, work skills and English-for-Speakers-of-Other-Languages classes, and as e-reader loaners in the areas where libraries are not yet reopened.
• Small business development organizations plan to integrate tablets into onsite business assistance and training classes. The organizations will also provide assistance to a high school entrepreneurship program run in about 30 underserved schools in New York City by New York State Small Business Development Centers.
• To help combat senior isolation, senior centers will employ tablets in teaching seniors to use video chatting and other electronic communication services as a way to keep them connected to their friends and families.
• Community centers will be able to use tablets in their programs to move young people living in poverty towards STEM and other high-skilled careers, as well as to assist their parents gain and improve technology-based job skills.
Source: CNET
