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The District of Columbia's Community Computing Resources project (DC-CCR) proposes to mitigate the overcrowding and long wait times currently experienced at District libraries and recreation centers. The project, led by the DC Public Library, plans to serve the entire District but focus on economically vulnerable populations, especially seniors, students, the unemployed, and low-income residents in Wards 5, 7 and 8, in communities like Eckington, Kenilworth, and Anacostia. The DC-CCR project proposes to provide computer skills, job search, and Internet use training via current library staff, outside instructors, and local volunteer experts, while upgrading equipment and improving connectivity for public use at 24 public libraries and new computer centers in two recreation centers, three public schools, and one community college library. The project aims to increase access speeds at participating libraries to 1 Gbps, which would also increase the capacity at Wi-Fi hotspots currently available to library patrons. DC-CCR proposes to: -Deploy as many as 1,070 new workstations at public computing centers, while upgrading 30 of the 603 currently in the network. -Serve as many as an additional 52,900 users every week and increase broadband speeds at participating computer centers to 10 Mbps or as high as 1 Gbps. -Train 8,000 people utilizing up to 24,000 hours of teacher-led training offered over the life of the project.

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