community partner

• What is the organization, and where are they located?
o Network Ministries
o 336 eddy st, San Francisco, CA

• What population do they serve?
o They help people who has low income around Tenderloin with issue relate to computer. They also open free computer classes for those people who want to study computer.

• How big is the organization?
o This organization is made up of teams with 4-6 people.

• How long have they been in existence?
o Since 1972, 36 years old.

• Are they a local organization, national, or international?
o Local organization.

• What is their mission?
o They want to bring technology into low income society in order to help them to increase their opportunity in the society. They also help them to understand what the outside world looks like now with all the computer stuff. Basically, Network Ministries is like a bridge connects their world to the advance real world.

• What are you doing with them this semester?
o I have to go to Network Ministries every Friday to help or teach senior citizens with all kinds of computer problems and skill. Sometime, we also need to fix computer problems. (Software, hardware, etc.)

Digital Information Writing Assignment

Amazon & iTune – they make money by selling songs individually, which means they don’t sell songs in one CD album; the consumers have the choice to buy the song he/she wants instate of buying just one CD which also include bad songs.


KKBox- this sofeware is from Taiwan. They charge monthly fee. And u have unlimited download. But the disadvantage of this program is you won’t get the newest song of the market. And also, you can download whatever song you want as long as it is in the downloadable list, and you don’t have to download the whole CD. If you want to download the newest songs on the market, they will charge extra fee for doing that.


For all three programs/website, they all use similar system. Those songs you wish to download can only play on certain media player.

For Amazon, you need Amazon MP3 Downloader application to download the song. Although you can play the song on iTune or Windows Media Player, but there’s protection on the mp3 file which makes it’s harder to share the music or video, etc.

For iTune and KKBox, you can only download the file via their software, and you can only use the software to play those file you downloaded. Also, you need to create an account before you use these software (buying music); and these software will use this account to identified the music you downloaded to see if you have the right to play them.