The public kiosk will be a low-cost touchscreen computer installed in a public area (e.g. the Cherokee St. Business Incubator), and it will feature an interface similar to the Captive Portal: a Benton Park West-focused information outlet listing events, community updates, local ads, and limited provision for Email (and maybe Skype too?).

Technical Details

The initial prototype kiosk may be built with a 2nd-hand Point-of-Sale (POS) touchscreen attached to a conventional PC with Wi-Fi interface, no external keyboard or mouse.  Later revisions could replace the computer with an inexpensive mini-PC [1], [2], or even include a custom, video game console-like enclosure.

References:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/diy_kids_kiosk.html