History

After several years of assisting campaigns by providing computer services we choose to develop a training and skills transfer policy and teach others rather than simply do the computer work for them.

The Cyber Pod

The Cyber Pod has it's own power supplies from renewable energy sources. Wind and solar charged batteries as well as low power consumption computers and communications equipment appropriate to it's location. The Cyber Pod was demonstrated for the first time at the 1995 Glastonbury Festival.

How we work - an overall picture

We use telephones, modems, radios, satellites, fax machines, computers, electronic mail, the latest software and world-wide databases, to supply IT services and training, to people and organisations who need them for co-operative endeavours and creative social change.

• RCT Acquires and provides Community Information Technology skills and communications resources and equipment.
• RCT Links communities:- locally, nationally and internationally.
• RCT Provides training in IT for individuals and groups.
• RCT Uses alternative power and routing technologies when ever possible with minimum costs to users and low environmental impact.
• RCT Provides Information Technology services to progressive social, humanitarian and ecological campaigns and organisations. Especially for people and groups who can't normally afford access to Information Technology resources.

Who are we and how do we do it?

• We are self-sufficient and we co-operate with other organisations with whom we are able to establish beneficial working relationships. We provide Internet and other computer and software training and consultancy.
• We provide a training centre and mobile IT, communications, training and demonstration facilities.
• We develop linking projects involving communities of people who have common interests.
• We help other groups replicate RainbowNet elsewhere.