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"Last week, Mayor Nutter and Congressman Bob Brady opened the first of a series of new public computer centers aimed at reaching the estimated 41 percent of city residents who do not have access to the Internet. On Tuesday, during Philly Tech Week, the Mayor logged on at the new center at Philadelphia FIGHT, an HIV/AIDS support organization - at 13th and Spruce streets, kicking off the federal grant-funded program. FIGHT has for more than a decade provided internet resources for people affected by HIV in the city.

'You should be able to get the information you need, access to services and programs all over the place,' Mayor Nutter said. 'This is the future of this city, and it's from a technology perspective.' Officials from the Freedom Rings Partnership - made up of pro-digital inclusion groups like FIGHT, the People's Emergency Center, Media Mobilizing Project and the Opportunities Industrialization Center - which is overseeing the new centers, thanked the elected officials for helping them secure more than $18 million in federal grants."

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