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As this space closes, I also invite you to join the international ...

... Digital Inclusion Network. (It is a low-bandwidth friendly e-list/web forum combination that is also on Facebook and Twitter.

It is a re-build of the previous DigitalDivide@ e-list which at one point reached 10,000 people around the world.

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Added by Steven Clift on August 17, 2010 at 5:10pm — No Comments

What's next for this community?

Hello everybody!

Just to pick up the thread about what to do with this network after the 20th August when the powers-that-be at Ning bring in their new charging regime.

When David and I started this network, it was really to support the digital inclusion conference a couple of years ago, and hadn't really thought it would take on a life of its own. That it has done is testament to those with a passion for the topic of digital inclusion, and to the

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Added by Dave Briggs on August 5, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Assistive Technology Jobs in Qatar - Interested ?

Mada, Qatar Assistive Technology Center is seeking to recruit committed and skilled people to help us achieve our vision of a fully accessible Qatar. The Mada center is an Assistive Technology Center, a not-for-profit organization devoted to ensuring that persons with disabilities in Qatar have access to the information and communications technologies that can improve their lives. The Center will serv

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Added by David Banes on July 14, 2010 at 11:37am — No Comments

Interview with the newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister

It's worth another look at Nick Clegg's views on Digital Inclusion and his repsponse to the question "What will you for DI if elected our next Prime Minister". He enjoyed being asked the question at the time, but I am not sure even he believed he would be waking up this morning quite so close to that role. www.nationaldigitalinclusionconference.co.uk

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Added by Robin Knowles on May 12, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Digital Community Film Making: A Checklist for Discussion

A Checklist of 30 Questions to support the community film-making process - from first ideas to mass distribution.

1. Is your film defined by the collective engagement of all participants?

2. Is it a group narrative with multiple visions and voices?

3. Are there elements which are collaborative… Continue

Added by Ian McCormick on May 11, 2010 at 4:12pm — No Comments

Recent BBC news reports

Some recent BBC news reports:
~ Martha Lane Fox on BBC Breakfast News - 29th March 2010
~ 'Nonliners' use web for the first time - 15th March 2010
~ Unable to afford the internet - 17th March 2010

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Added by Cathy Aitchison on March 29, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Promises for action following NDI10

Helen Milner, Managing Director UK online centres, writes:
"One of the great outcomes of the conference was a set of solid promises for action to get more people online not just in 2010 but beyond. Some fantastic ideas came out, including a Digital Neighbourhoods campaign to encourage people to Pass IT on to their neighbours, a commitment to get all of Britain's care homes online,and a promise from the Peabody Trust and Southern Housing to get all of their sheltered housing residents usi

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Added by Cathy Aitchison on March 15, 2010 at 8:30pm — 5 Comments

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 — 1 Comment

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