InfoHelp Community Trust (Inc. August 2000)

InfoHelp.org.nz is a non-profit community organisation, helping low-income people keep pace with technological change (specifically in techniques of information retrieval, delivery and exchange) in a relaxed rural environment. [Disestablished 2004]

Why InfoHelp?

The world mind breathes Information, and needs Help. Communication technology acts to widen the gulf between rich and poor. Digitised media confront us ever more immediately with the numbing consequences - homicide and war. Our collective conscience yearns for reconciliation while the world economy and environment edge towards collapse. What's missing is individual comprehension and real choice.

On the principle "think globally, act locally", InfoHelp is here to help cohere the social and technological networks necessary to transcend the deepening crisis. Our practical focus is what needs to be done to keep the information flowing, for collective development, here and now. To Optimise Communication.

Why an InfoHelp Trust?

• To facilitate ready access to Information Technology with relevant training and support
• To ameliorate the noxious and wasteful aspects of the IT industry through development of a targeted zero-waste recyling system
• To make sense of the economic and environmental instabilities suffered by humanity
• To participate in developing a sustainable future for all

Objectives

• To maintain a readily available IT helpdesk service
• To run community electronics workshops compliant with Health and Safety Act (1993) requirements
• To model a working environment that integrates a healthy balance of technology training, organic horticulture and recreation
• To facilitate ready access to electronic research, training and assistance
• To recycle electronic equipment for maintaining self-sufficient existence

InfoHelp's specialty is development of opportunities for self-employment in the information industry and its offshoots.
Our Web Team can introduce you to E-business and IT self-sufficiency.
Similarly, we offer economical support for some older information technologies.

Fields of expertise

• Computer repairs, upgrades, tuition
• Home stereo systems
• Video players

Services available

• IT business ideas consultancy
• Computer programming
• Monitor replacement
• Historical research and news item searches (trend scanning)

Feel free to contact us if you require assistance in any of these fields.

We are keen to hear from anyone wishing to complement our skillbase by initiating their own related projects.

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Donations of raw materials warmly received.

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