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Online Potential

With every passing day, satelite internet is becoming a more viable solution to getting people online. I remember my experiences just a few years ago living in a pretty rural area of the country and only having one option for Internet service (which happened to be exhorbitantly priced). Today, nobody is really limited to the one option that their community may offer through traditional infrastructure. Though it doe… Continue

Added by Jesse Strang on March 12, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

It's time to collaborate!

Well I’ve had a marathon of conferences this week, in lovely Birmingham on Tuesday for Becta’s Time to Innovate Next Generation Learning Conference and then the 5th National Digital Inclusion Conference in London for the last two days. Here are some of my thoughts:

Everyone wants a piece of the action now

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Added by Bryony Taylor on March 12, 2010 at 9:19am — No Comments

access2info, Many Voices and Clickstart

Hi all

My name is Jacob Adams, I am Information Officer with HAFAD, Hammersmith and Fulham Action on Disability. We offer a range of services including an information service called access2info available over the phone and online. We have a new project called Many Voices, to get the voices and opinions of disabled people in the borough online. We have also brought Clickstart, a project developed by the Rix Centre at UEA to our borough. This project is designed to create accessible websi… Continue

Added by Jacob Adams on March 10, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

Q: So what's the Disability Arts Online #digitalinclusion project then? A: It's called New Voices

Disability Arts Online’s New Voices project is a new version of the Renaissance Student Journalist network, conceived by DAO’s Manager Jon Pratty, and successfully run at Culture24 from 2005-7. More about the Culture24 student writer network here, and here

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Added by Jon Pratty on March 10, 2010 at 12:44am — No Comments

Digital Inclusion ten years ago

Looking back at old site of mine, I came across a A manifesto for online communities, written by a group of us back in 1999, and published by the BBC as part of its Webwise campaign. It's a sort of early unofficial digital inclusion plan. Here's the summary. (I've written a longer post

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Added by David Wilcox on March 9, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

The best coffee shop in town

Lunched with Mum and daughter today. We have Ladies Lunches, when all three generations of us females go out to lunch together and share sandwiches, cake and giggles. We met Mum at the mall and she looked rather harassed.

She sighed, “I have this letter from the Council about my refuse collection and I don’t understand it so I brought it along for you to look at. I tr

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Added by Marie Crandell on March 9, 2010 at 7:57pm — No Comments

Call for Questions at NDI10!

On Wednesday 10th March will be having a Cross Party Question Time Panel at NDI10, which will be taking place between 12.00pm - 1.00pm at Vinopolis.

This BBC style question time panel will be chaired by Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive at the RSA,

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Added by Rebecca Nicholls on March 7, 2010 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Interview with Nick Clegg to be shown at NDI10

Many thanks to everyone who submitted a question for me to ask Nick Clegg. We filmed him in his office between 6pm and 7pm last night and we are editing the interview today in readiness to show it to the NDI10 audience at 9.30am on the 11th March.

It will be shown on the live webstream, which is free to watch and then will appear as as a downloadable VOD piece from the webstream. Hope you like it, apologies for anyone's questions that I asked and that got cut in the edit and remember t

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Added by Robin Knowles on March 3, 2010 at 1:06pm — 1 Comment

What do we expect from NDI10?

Having been to National Digital Inclusion for the last three years I'm looking for something that's grounded in people's experience. I accept that we have to have the politics, the funders have to have their day and the funded have to show progress but unlike three year's ago digital inclusion is much more mainstream.

This is an opportunity to meet, greet and share. I'm looking not just for successes I'm looking for lesson's learrned. Who achieved great outcomes for individuals

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Added by Paul Nash on March 3, 2010 at 9:09am — 1 Comment

NDI10 programme timings

Programme timings as of today below. To get the most up-to-date details of the conference programme, please visit the website.

Wednesday 10th March

10.15am Conference Introduction and Welcome (Mezzanine)
- Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA,

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Added by Cathy Aitchison on March 3, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Please feel free to become a fan and see what we are doing to promote digital inclusion.

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Added by Rob Richman on February 28, 2010 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Gordon Brown opening NDI10

While I think few of us could have expected the Prime Minister to be free to open the National Digital Inclusion Conference, given it is an hour or so before "Prime Ministers Questions" on Wednesday 10th March, I am very pleased to be able to confirm that he is pre-recording a "Welcome Speech" to delegates to start off our two days of debate and networking at NDI10.

He will be followed by the Digital Inclusion Minister, Stephen Timms MP who will speak from the platform after wh

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Added by Robin Knowles on February 26, 2010 at 10:58am — No Comments

What would you ask Nick Clegg about Digital Inclusion ?

Those of you lucky enough to have got one the last of the 500 tickets to NDI10 http://www.nationaldigitalinclusionconference.co.uk or if not who are planning to watch it for free on the live webstream can hopefully help me out.

As part of the direct participation of the three main political parties hoping to run the UK from some time in May or June, Nick Clegg has agreed to be interviewed about a Digitally Inclu

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Added by Robin Knowles on February 25, 2010 at 10:48am — 4 Comments

Get On Line Day (Europe)

For European Get On Line Day March 4th I'm organising a Day of Cultural Broadcasting from Destinations, Saltburn UK. I plan to use the "live blogging" approach employed for the recent Saltburn Community Animation event

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Added by Steve Thompson on February 24, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Mind the (age) gap

Some random thoughts on those elusive older people who have never been online. I wonder if part of the problem is that the policies, support and materials are being developed in the main by young men. I'm not getting at you young men, but... :) often your starting point is off-beam when it comes to talking technology with older people, particularly older women.
Let's take explaining the keyboard as an example. If you grew up in the 60s, 70s or 80s, the chances are that every keyboard you

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Added by Cathy Aitchison on February 16, 2010 at 6:00am — 4 Comments

World Community Arts Day and digital participation

Why not encourage your networks, students and followers to take part in World Community Arts Day on Wednesday 17th February. Invite people to create something digitally about themselves or their world, then load the results online. eg:
~ a one minute video or slide-show-with-audio
~ an original photog… Continue

Added by Cathy Aitchison on February 4, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Digital participation project, Butetown, Cardiff - new update blog

A new blog has just been put up that gives an account of the first few small first steps towards the creation of a new digital engagement programme in Butetown/Tiger Bay, Cardiff. The initiative is called Digital Butetown. The blog is not a public-facing site yet but simply a reference point for future stakeholders/partners/funders. Butetown is one of the most culturally diverse parts of the U.K. It is home to the second most dep… Continue

Added by David Barrie on February 1, 2010 at 11:32pm — 1 Comment

Media Trust Community Voices grants - applications invited (England)

You may already be aware of the Media Trust Community Voices grants which are currently open for applications (info has been posted on various lists today, 29th Jan - please pass on to anyone who might be eligible). The Media Trust will be selecting 26 community projects (in England) to receive funding of either: ~ £1,500 (10 projects), ~ £7,000 (10 projects) or ~ £14,000 (6 projects), as well as support fro… Continue

Added by Cathy Aitchison on January 29, 2010 at 7:14pm — No Comments

Community reporting - Women's Design Service

I hope you don't mind me banging on about radio yet again, but I'd just like to share this example of community reporting which I've seen doing recently. Interviewing in Croydon

The Women's Design Service (WDS) has a project to set up… Continue

Added by Cathy Aitchison on January 26, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Hello World; My first blog post on de

I though I would make use of this space by making a posting and try to foster a bit of online engagement in the network. I would admit that I have naivety about the politics of digital engagement; I have come to this sector as I hit 30 up to which my career was as a computer programmer & new media developer & project manager. The ultimate jack-of-all-trades ... I moved from full time employment to return to education and was looking to do a masters in digital marketing communication bef… Continue

Added by sarah kate norman on January 20, 2010 at 9:00am — 4 Comments