About Prairienet Community Network

Prairienet, founded in 1993, is a community information network for Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding East-Central Illinois region, offered by the Community Informatics Initiative through the Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Prairienet's mission is to:

• Strengthen community organizations by helping them provide and retrieve networked information.
• Empower individuals by providing access to networked information and by teaching the skills necessary to access and use this information.
• Facilitate information and resource sharing in support of community development efforts.
• Promote equity of access to computer resources for everyone in the community.