Details of the Approved Applications Under the ASC Initiative 2007
Organisation:1428 Active Retirement Club Ltd
Description of Project: To encourage the members to continue participating in learning new skills in the area of information and communication technology.
Amount Awarded: €8,000
Organisation:Ábalta Special School Limited
Description of Project: To provide access to ICT for the pupils at the school
Amount Awarded: €47,419.05
Organisation:Ability Enterprises
Description of Project: To enable target groups to access ICT skills training through use of broadband facilities, to further improve the quality of current training, and to provide access for the target groups to basic certified training in ICT skills. Funding allocated for broadband connection, 2 PC's and specialist software.
Amount Awarded: €7,021
Organisation:Age Action Ireland
Description of Project: Expand the ICT instructional Getting Started programme, with training by intergenerational/multicultural volunteers
Amount Awarded: €49,443
Organisation:Age Action Ireland with the Work Research Centre
Description of Project :To conduct research including on specific training needs and develop an online resource base to support organisations working on Information Society and eInclusion issues for older people in Ireland.
Amount Awarded: €108,000.00
Organisation:Ait Na nDaoine
Description of Project: 220 disabled persons will be supported to use Ait na nDaoine's website to help them secure employment, & employers will be made aware of the website.
Amount Awarded: €7,260
Organisation:Amen
Description of Project: A project to equip men, whose lives have been disrupted due to domestic circumstances, with IT skills to enable them to explore new directions in their lives. The project is part of Amen's ongoing help and support service for men who have been marginalised due to abuse in the home. Funding allocated for training.
Amount Awarded: €5,400
Organisation:An Cosán - The Shanty Educational Project Ltd.
Description of Project: Develop visual learning environment and incorporate ICT to increase use of the An Cosán Open Learning Centre. Funding is allocated to deliver e-learning systems.
Amount Awarded: €51,670
Organisation:Ashdale/Woodlands Grove Residents Group
Description of Project: To help lone parents & job-seekers find employment. To train at least 2 members of group so that they can assist and educate target groups - active age, disabled, unemployed & lone parents - in the use of Internet & e-mail.
Amount Awarded: €600
Organisation:Ballon Business & Training Services
Description of Project: To provide specialised training courses for the target groups; continue to develop the Claneire portal. Funding allocated towards training costs, 8 PC's and a laser printer.
Amount Awarded: €30,576
Organisation:Ballyfermot IT Centre Social Economy Ltd
Description of Project: To give unemployed people in disadvantaged areas the skills to use computers and the internet and to obtain two recognised qualification in ICT skills (IC3 MOS & ECDL).Funding allocated towards manuals, certification, training and room rental.
Amount Awarded: €19,390
Organisation:Ballyfermot Social Intervention Initiative
Description of Project: To provide basic ICT skills, Internet and e-mail training for the target group, to increase their self-confidence.
Amount Awarded: €3,800
Organisation:Ballyhaunis Family Resource Centre
Description of Project: Additional equipment and training following on from that received in 2006
Amount Awarded: €6,500
Organisation:Ballymun Men's Centre
Description of Project: To provide basic IT skills training, heighten awareness of the benefits of ICT. Funding is allocated for specialised software and training.
Amount Awarded: €8,240
Organisation:Baptec Ltd
Description of Project: Promote ICT usage among target groups by encouraging late adopters to undertake targeted training. Funding allocated towards training costs.
Amount Awarded: €16,700
Organisation:Blackrock Hospice (Our Lady's Hospice Ltd)
Description of Project: To enable patients of the hospice to communicate with family members/loved ones living abroad & to give patients access to the Internet
Amount Awarded: €6,500
Organisation:Bray Partnership - Older Persons Cluster Group
Description of Project: Increase awareness of benefits and opportunities from internet use - build skills and increase ability through training
Amount Awarded: €8,275
Organisation:Cando Community Partnership
Description of Project: To engage rural women in County Carlow, identify their computer training needs and then provide this training, certified where possible, in accessible rural venues. This course will help to improve the digital literacy of those who participate.
Amount Awarded: €1,269
Organisation:Carlow Rural Information Services Project
Description of Project: To create an on-line and physical website directory, compiled by and relevant to the over-50s. Participants will gain basic computer training, have free access to computer facilities, and create web and printed content from their own user experiences. The end result will be a guide to local and relevant websites for the over-50s. Funding allocated for training, materials and supported access following training.
Amount Awarded: €15,000
Organisation:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups
Description of Project: Improve digital literacy among small C&V Groups and all Centre's staff. Funding is allocated towards the development of a services database.
Amount Awarded: €4,610
Organisation:Castleblayney Arts and Community Dev. Co. Ltd.
Description of Project: Research with questionnaire sent out to older people, by providing basic skills in I.T., support in lifelong learning, and facilitating networking among older people. Funding allocated for the basic and advanced courses, excluding in-house tutor costs for the basic course.
Amount Awarded: €3,368
Organisation:Cherry Orchard Family Resource Centre Ltd.
Description of Project: To provide ICT training for their clients; additional equipment for use at committee meetings and group presentations. Funding allocated for training and 1 laptop.
Amount Awarded: €4,606
Organisation:City of Limerick ICT Steering Group
Description of Project: To identify the digital capacity of identified key community based workers in Limerick City; & to enhance community based learning provision by the integrated relevant use of technology
Amount Awarded: €47,521.55
Organisation:Co Meath VEC
Description of Project: Development of two new curricula for older learners with learning textbooks and CDs .
Amount Awarded: €44,050
Organisation:Coláiste Mhuire
Description of Project: To embrace technology for disadvantaged people in the community and to promote digital literacy and IT skills among the active retired and non-nationals. Funding allocated for tutor costs and travelling costs for clients.
Amount Awarded: €7,675
Organisation:Community Enterprise Society LTD (Terenure Enterprise Centre)
Description of Project: Provide Equalskills and ECDL training for seniors.
Amount Awarded: €21,700
Organisation:Conaí Clubhouse EVE Ltd
Description of Project: To enable members to become more involved in the clubhouse IT activities through the provision of customised training & updated equipment. Funding allocated towards training and equipment.
Amount Awarded: €5,000
Organisation:Donnycarney Community & Youth Centre Ltd
Description of Project: Design of training course, including production of written training manual.
Amount Awarded: €12,000
Organisation:Down Syndrome Ireland
Description of Project: To enable users that have gained basic digital literacy skills (through completing the first learning resource) to improve their skills to a higher level in order to enable more meaningful and personally beneficial engagement with the internet.
Amount Awarded: €23,380
Organisation:Drogheda Partnership Ltd
Description of Project: Provide training for Senior Citizens and people with disabilities including those who are house-bound and those living in isolated areas. Promote the use of ICT as a tool for enhancing citizenship and social rights for the elderly. Over 250 people will benefit directly from this initiative.
Amount Awarded: €47,640
Organisation:Dublin Employment Pact
Description of Project :To extend the e-cert training programme. To develop a new community programme using Web 2.0 technologies. To train 150 peer group trainers to train others and to train 2,000 people in ICT skills. This will deepen the community skills infrastructure in disadvantaged communities and enabling further passing on of ICT skills beyond the lifetime of this project.
Amount Awarded: €794,700.00
Organisation:Dun Laoghaire, Kill of the Grange and Shankill Active retirement Associations
Description of Project :To deliver computer use and internet training to 48 older people.
Amount Awarded: €15,000.00
Organisation:DunshaughlinCommunity College
Description of Project: To promote computer literacy among older members of the community, and in co-operation with these groups to develop content which would be relevant and of local interest. Funding allocated for training, website maintenance and content development for Dunshaughlin Active Retirement Group.
Amount Awarded: €3,362
Organisation:E.V.E. Ltd Harvest Centre
Description of Project: To provide access to computers for Centre members; a formal course of instruction within the centre; access to the internet, to enable them to source information for their existing programmes & to plan and organise their own activities and trips from the Centre.
Amount Awarded: €11,465
Organisation:Galway Centre for Independent Living
Description of Project: 50 people and leaders of Galway Centre for Independent Living will take part in training on IT skills and use of the internet at the Centre's accessible training centre. The aim of the project is the development of a virtual community of leaders of Galway Centre for Independent Living.
Amount Awarded: €10,000
Organisation:Galway Refugee Support Group
Description of Project: Provide an opportunity for immigrant homemakers to learn ICT skills. Funding allocated for training.
Amount Awarded: €5,820
Organisation:Galway Teleworking Co-op Society Ltd
Description of Project: To provide access to information through IT through ICT courses; secure broadband for rural communities.
Amount Awarded: €11,610
Organisation:Genil Training Service
Description of Project: Provide advanced opportunities for adults with learning disabilities, with FETAC accreditation in computers and ECDL
Amount Awarded: €2,000
Organisation:Headway Co. Cork
Description of Project: The objective of the accessible programme will be to improve the digital literacy of all Headway's service users and support their independent living and access to lifestyle and health information through the accessibility of internet usage.
Amount Awarded: €11,104.18
Organisation:Headway Limerick
Description of Project: To create an inclusive and accessible IT programme for clients with an acquired brain injury who have difficulty accessing mainstream equipment due to their disability. Currently clients with acquired brain injury who have visual impairment or one sided weakness/paralysis or major communication difficulties cannot access Headways current IT programme.
Amount Awarded: €11,104.18
Organisation:Hitec Carrickmacross Ltd
Description of Project: Click for Fun & Profit will introduce the use and role of technology in a practical and user friendly way for all age groups regardless of status, education, age or ability.
Amount Awarded: €4,800
Organisation:Hospital Family Resource Centre Ltd
Description of Project: To increase the accessibility of ICT technology to people with disabilities and older people through the provision of access to computers, specialised training and development, and so building participants capacity and increasing their independence. Funding allocated for computer hardware, software and installation and training.
Amount Awarded: €31,896
Organisation:Irish Wheelchair Association
Description of Project: To provide computer training for people with disabilities; purchase computers for centre-based training & laptops for mobile training for outreach centre. Funding allocated for equipment.
Amount Awarded: €10,387.6
Organisation:Kilaloe/Ballina Family Resource Centre Ltd
Description of Project: Provide basic computer courses to the Active Age Group; run follow-up to Creative Writing & Integration Project using the Internet & e-mail; make an accessible computer available to people with disabilities in the community
Amount Awarded: €8,150
Organisation:Kildysart Community Focus
Description of Project: Provide computer hardware, software and training for seniors. Funding is allocated for tutor fees, website design and a projector.
Amount Awarded: €5,000
Organisation:Killarney Women's organisation for Training & Empowerment
Description of Project: To introduce computers to beginners and refresh those with basic knowledge.
Amount Awarded: €1,370
Organisation:Knockanrawley Resource Centre Ltd. (1. Tipperary Active Retired Association. 2. Tipperary Residents Network. 3. Tipperary (Grow) Association)
Description of Project: To upskill older people, people with disabilities and their carers to explore and exploit the potential and relevance of ICT in their lives, and where relevant in their community and voluntary organisations. (Project management costs being partially funded).
Amount Awarded: €10,700
Organisation:KolbeSpecial School
Description of Project: To provide a whiteboard and assistive technology switches in a special school
Amount Awarded: €5,982.5
Organisation:Leitrim Association of People with Disabilities
Description of Project: To promote & develop training/participation in the use of technology, & to train 30 members in the use of digital cameras, camcorders & other assistive technologies. Funding is allocated for camcorders and tuition, towards digital cameras and assistive technology for cameras.
Amount Awarded: €5,000
Organisation:Leitrim Village Development Company Ltd
Description of Project: To equip target groups with the basic skills to use the computer, basic software programmes and access information through the internet & e-mail
Amount Awarded: €16,750
Organisation:Mayo County Council
Description of Project: To provide computers and related equipment to community and voluntary groups. Where economically possible, internet access will also be provided.
Amount Awarded: €51,500
Organisation:Mayo County Development Board
Description of Project: Develop and test innovative approaches to using ICT to engage with isolated people living in rural areas
Amount Awarded: €24,000
Organisation:Mobile IT Ltd
Description of Project: Participants will learn to be computer literate and/or become more familiar and comfortable and competent in using the programmes, which will be Equalskills and introductory MS Word & Excel, and internet and e-mail.
Amount Awarded: €11,400
Organisation:Mountmellick Development Association
Description of Project: To support the participation of older people & people with disabilities in ICT.
Amount Awarded: €37,000
Organisation:Mullaghmatt Cortolvin Community Development
Description of Project: To broaden access to the internet & other ICT, through targeted training facilities. Funding allocated for equipment and tuition.
Amount Awarded: €28,062
Organisation:NAPS Community Services
Description of Project: To bring technology to members of the O.A.K. (Older, Active, Keen) alliance, i.e. all those interested in getting and keeping up-to-date with new methods of communication.
Amount Awarded: €11,437
Organisation:National Learning Network
Description of Project: To train target group across 12 counties and make software available to service users.
Amount Awarded: €21,200
Organisation:NCU Limited (Northside Centre for the Unemployed) Coolock
Description of Project: Provision of touch screens in apartment complexes for elderly, and associated training and some training in the community centre for other senior people. Funding allocated for equipment and training.
Amount Awarded: €26,425
Organisation:North Kerry I.T. Network Ltd
Description of Project: The objective of the project is to ensure an eCitizen qualification for each member of the group; build knowledge of ICT and their usage of it as a means of communication and interaction with others.Funding allocated for 16 courses and workbooks for 160 participants.
Amount Awarded: €23,360
Organisation:North West Roscommon CDP
Description of Project: To bring sustainable IT training to people meeting in day care centres, community centres & other non-formal settings in the NW Roscommon area. Funding allocated for equipment and tuition.
Amount Awarded: €14,040
Organisation:Northside Partnership
Description of Project: Provide target participants with tailored support in the area of ICT. Funding allocated for training and to engage/link with isolated people over a broad catchment area.
Amount Awarded: €27,500
Organisation:Old Coolattin Country Ltd
Description of Project: To further develop computer training, building on experience from 2006 project, & to expand the target group on a geographical basis
Amount Awarded: €12,290
Organisation:Our Lady's Hospice Harold's Cross
Description of Project: To develop an e-learning and communication portal for residents in care of the Older Persons Services in Our Lady's Hospice.
Amount Awarded: €78,311.52
Organisation:Quarryvale Resource Centre
Description of Project: To make the Internet and computers accessible to the people in the local community. To provide a weekly session which combines learning and having fun for a group of young teens and pre-teens with learning difficulties who are at risk of leaving school early.
Amount Awarded: €4,370
Organisation:RehabCare Dublin 4
Description of Project:Training, purchase hardware, software and adaptive software for Day Care Centres & residential settings. Funding is allocated for a pilot project in 5 residential settings.
Amount Awarded: €18,304
Organisation:Roscommon Partnership Company
Description of Project: To enable men who have not had the opportunity before to do computer training
Amount Awarded: €640
Organisation:Serenity House Learning Centre
Description of Project: This programme is designed to provide suitable I.T. training for older people in order to combat isolation and to provide practical training on the world wide web, to surf the net more efficiently or just to keep in touch with friends and family. Funding allocated for basic computer courses.
Amount Awarded: €6,816
Organisation:Sisters of Charity of Jesus & Mary, Co Laois
Description of Project: ICT based events as a means to: promote personal development skills; build, enhance and support independent life skills experiences; develop social skills through 'real life' activities that encourage contact with mainstream life and at the same time impact and raise awareness in the community; provide social & leisure activities using ICT; provide educational and environmental learning skills; build communication links with family members and friends using e-mail. Funding is allocated to be used towards residential services.
Amount Awarded: €44,686.40
Organisation:Sliabh Luachra Local Development
Description of Project: Funding for aA bank of laptops to facilitate training in rural areas.
Amount Awarded: €10,500
Organisation:Slieverdagh C.I.T.E
Description of Project: To promote IT skills development to older people living in a rural/disadvantaged area.
Amount Awarded: €8,400
Organisation:Sophia Housing Association
Description of Project: To provide training for the residents of transitional & long-term housing provided by Sophia; to develop 5 websites representing each community (Tallaght, Ballymun, Donabate, Churchtown, Cork Street)
Amount Awarded: €21,960
Organisation:South Area Youth Service Limited
Description of Project: To offer young people in the area I.T. classes, complimented by home computer access.
Amount Awarded: €6,500
Organisation:South Kilkenny Community Development
Description of Project: To provide ICT training to a number of specific target groups. The main objective is to stimulate interest and knowledge regarding ICT in rural South Kilkenny to overcome the digital divide through local ICT training, public access points and development of community websites.
Amount Awarded: €6,400
Organisation:South TipperaryOlder Peoples Network
Description of Project: To provide practical IT skills for older people, using the course and booklet designed in 2006
Amount Awarded: €9,090
Organisation:Southside Local Employment Service
Description of Project: To provide basic computer training for clients across the target groups who wish to access employment; create an information resource developed by the participants for the local community. Funding allocated for training at one location.
Amount Awarded: €2,780
Organisation:Southside Travellers Action Group
Description of Project: To train travellers to use the Internet to improve their access to information; to build a website for travellers with a particular emphasis on primary healthcare
Amount Awarded: €21,960
Organisation:Southside Womens Network
Description of Project: To provide women with the skills to access the internet; provide an on-line resource for all women with relevant information from the Network
Amount Awarded: €15,400
Organisation:Spafield Family Resource Centre
Description of Project: To provide an accessible IT training room to enable people with disabilities to access computer training in a community based setting
Amount Awarded: €2,316.95
Organisation:St Aidan's Services
Description of Project: To provide access to digital technology, the Internet & on-line educational programmes for participants, & to enlarge & continue the ongoing ECDL & film projects
Amount Awarded: €18,500
Organisation:St. John of God Carmona Services
Description of Project: Provide ICT skills to those with an intellectual disability & their support workers, & to document training experience to provide content for other providers. Funding allocated towards the project.
Amount Awarded: €13,000
Organisation:St. John of God Carmona Services
Description of Project: Development of materials and training for computer literacy and internet skills, web based communication for people with disability. Funding allocated for equipment.
Amount Awarded: €18,932
Organisation:Taghmon Action Group
Description of Project: To provide locally based IT training opportunities in Taghmon with an emphasis on the skills development of people that have little or no experience of new technologies
Amount Awarded: €11,000
Organisation:The Irish Wheelchair Association - Cork City and East Cork
Description of Project: To extend the laptop library project to cover Cork County. Funding allocated for data pens and laptops.
Amount Awarded: €8,000
Organisation: The Irish Wheelchair Association - West Cork
Description of Project:Establish a library of assistive/adaptive technology & software that can be borrowed by the target group. Funding is allocated for equipment.
Amount Awarded: €8,996.87
Organisation: The Wheel (eEnablement)
Description of Project :To pilot in 10 C&V organisations, a new model & framework to facilitate a better service to their clients and to serve as demonstrators of the benefits of ICTs. This will allow C&V groups to use ICT to significantly leverage their capacity to deliver service to their clients.
Amount Awarded: €87,300.00
Organisation: The Wheel (Reaching Out)
Description of Project :To increase the capacity within the C&V sector by heightening awareness of ICT solutions that have transformed commercial & private sectors in information society. Run a series of workshops on: membership relationship management, information rights and responsibility, ICT effectiveness, financial accountability; develop a series of fact & information sheets; and set up a dedicated help-desk function.
Amount Awarded: €26,000.00
Organisation:West Limerick102 (WLCR FM Ltd)
Description of Project: Use the process of making radio programmes as an outcome driven mechanism for developing practical ICT skills. Funding is allocated for training and equipment.
Amount Awarded: €11,946
Organisation:Wicklow Rural Partnership/Wicklow Information Network
Description of Project: This project will train 40 senior adults (over 55 years of age) in rural Co. Wicklow to a level where they can use Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Word. This progression course will use ICT as a means to assist senior adults to create publications and to write articles for their local newsletters. Funding is allocated towards training.
Amount Awarded: €17,500
Organisation:Wicklow Trade Union Centre for the Unemployed
Description of Project: To assist the target group (women with home duties) to gain a FETAC accredited course to enable them return to the workforce. Funding allocated for venure hire, materials and tutor costs.
Amount Awarded: €5,200
Organisation:WINC Ltd (Westgate Computer Centre) Wexford
Description of Project:eCitizen, Equalskills and ECDL for elderly, mothers at home and deaf clients. Funding allocated for Equalskills & eCitizen training.
Amount Awarded: €15,050
TOTAL: €2,386,888.80