Career
PTW looked to serve inmates and ex-offenders by teaching them computer skills and offering technical assistance to prisons and rehabilitation agencies. In 1983, Stone and PTW Corporation opened the Harlem Community Computing Center. This center was located in the basement of a Harlem housing project it provided the neighborhood with public access to personal computers.
Taking advantage of the success of PTW, Stone created a network of centers known as the PTWNet.
Three years later Stone changed the PTWNet name to the Community Technology Centers’ Network. The newly named network was a national membership organization of community technology centers.
Today, the CTCNet includes more than 600 member sites connected by the Internet. The network is an independent organization that provides services to 1,000 community technology centers on the country.
PTW is still working to provide computer literacy programs in Harlem.
In 1997, Stone left CTCNet but continued working and advising in the area of technical literacy. In 2001, Stone was awarded an honorary doctorate from DePaul University. Antonia Stone died in 2002 due to complications from myelodysplastic leukemia.
