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(A few quick blogged notes from Martha Lane-Fox’s talk at Reboot Britain)

Talking at Reboot Britain this morning Martha Lane-Fox emphasised that, with 17m UK Citizens not online, but with 6m of those most excluded not only from technology, but from wider… Continue

Reposted from the Connected Communities blog

Getting 30 top thinkers on community development, digital inclusion and social capital together for a two-hour seminar at the RSA earlier this week was bound to generate lots of insights and ideas. And it certainly generated many more than can be captured in one blog post. You'll find quite a lots of t… Continue

What's the link between Digital Inclusion and Social Capital? How can digital tools support deprived communities? What can the theory of social capital teach us about efforts to promote digital engagement? And what's going on at the grass roots level across the country when it comes to social technologies for social equality?

Those are some of the themes that may come up in today's RSA seminar on Digital Inclusion and Social Capital. I'll… Continue

Searching effectively on Google requires a high level of basic literacy. Getting the right search terms; phrasing a search for best effects; skim reading the results; choosing the result that looks most relevant then finding in the web-page you are taken to the information you need, whilst assessing whether it is a good source or not.

As the paper Will Davies will be presenting to the RSA/UK Online Centre's S… Continue

After the draft manifesto points were collected in and presented at the Digital Inclusion Conference 2009 I managed to grab a quick chat with Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of The RSA and Chair of the conference to hear what he made of the draft manifesto.

You can watch the interview below (sorry about all the background noise).… Continue