Member-PC

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Member-PC

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Why Member-PC ?

• Helps the members to access the information
  society
• Helps the members at work and their children at
  school
• Helps the unions to keep in contact with the
  members

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Technical Combination

• Hardware
• Monitor
• Printer
• Modem
• Internet

• HP Brio PII 400 Mhz
• 17
• HP Deskjet 710C
• 56,6 kb
• connection paid for 3 years

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Programs

• Windows -98
• MS Office SBE 97 (Word, Excel, Publisher and
  Outlook)
• Internet Explorer browser
• Promentor a computer based language training
  program
• MS Worlds Atlas 99 and MS Picture It
• F-Secure Anti Virus

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Who Can Buy Member PC ?

• Members of the affiliated unions of SAK
• Local branches
• Members of The Union of Technical Employees TL
  and The Union of Salaried Employees in Industry
  STL
• Federation of Private Building Employees RAL
• Members of unions of cultural field

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Together With

• Hewelett Packard
• ICL
• Sonera
• Microsoft
• Promentor
• OP-Finance
• Scribona

• hardware
• dealer
• internet connections
• software
• language program
• financing
• logistics

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The Project

• Started in August 1998
• Members can buy or hire the PC
• Members can get the packet directly to their
  homes all over the country
• All the programs are pre-installed
• About 13 000 PCs sold or hired
• This project is finished at the end of the June

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The Influences

• A new standard of a home PC
• A new level of prices
• A new way to buy or hire a PC

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The Trade Union Use

• Email-connections between members and unions
• Homepages of SAK and its affiliated unions
• Forums for the members of the unions
• Netshop

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Where Are We Today ?

• ca 50 of members use a PC
• 40 of members have a PC at home
• 22 of members have an e-mail address
• 26 of members use Internet
• 48 of shop stewards have a PC at home
• 49 of members under 30 years use internet