 Rotary’s Community Computer Center on WHEELS - Access to technology is an important issue for out-of-school youth and under-educated population across the country. The Rotary Club of Talipapa has tackled the access problem by making the technology mobile. The CoW Project (Computer on WHEELS) is a customized mobile computer classroom housed on a 40-foot bus. It will boast of state of the art computer hardware and software including 11 fully networked Pentium PCs and a provisional ramp for wheelchair access.
CoW will primarily serve the urban poor areas of Barangay Talipapa and adjacent communities, as well as rural areas where mobile learning facilities such as the COW is mostly needed. It will serve communities where public transportation is limited and access to technology are inadequate. It will serve as a training vehicle for local communities, children, out-of-school youth, unwed mothers and the disabled, and will provide a variety of computer-based learning courses to adults and children.
Through the Computer on WHEELS Program, the community will witness the metamorphosis of a bus into a computer classroom.
“There are many pockets of urban and rural individuals we want to reach with technology and with the opportunity to gain educational training.” Many of these individuals do not have access to technology or do not have the means to pursue it. How then do you give them the opportunity to fully participate in the technology revolution? Build a computer lab on a bus and drive it to them. There is a large population who didn’t have access to computer technology but who were either unwilling or unable to travel to the labs in the community. In this manner we can serve a wide and diverse population. All with the same equipment! | 
