*Updated* National Director of the Digital Challenge Network
July 18, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, Bristol City Council, jobs , add a commentNational Director, ‘DC10’ Digital Challenge Network
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual consultant to build up the profile and influence of the recently founded DC10 group, of which Connecting Bristol is an active member.
DC10 are a group of 10 Local Authorities aiming to embed digital inclusion in local and national mainstream thinking. DC10 emerged as a group after reaching the Digital Challenge final, which was run by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) with support from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Environmental and Health Sector.
Who Wants to be the Digital Challenge Director?
June 19, 2007 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Digital Challenge, Bristol, jobs , add a commentDIGITAL CHALLENGE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR - FIXED TERM (18 MONTH)
£46,887 - £50,742
37 Hours per week
Sunderland City Council is now looking for a Programme Director to manage and co-ordinate their winning Digital Challenge Programme. You will need to have experience of engaging and working in partnership with commercial partners and with local communities, communities of interest and thematic-based issue groups.
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Knowle West Media Centre meets Chris Pickering
November 21, 2006 Posted by Roz in : Education, Digital Challenge, Wireless, Community Media, Media, e-society, Learning, Skills, jobs, Technology , 2 comments26 October 2006
I travelled to KWMC where I met with Chris Pickering, Director of Future Learning, a social enterprise providing training opportunities in Knowle West. Chris told me about his involvement with Knowle West Web and how he has worked closely with Kevin and Diane Jeffries to support them in putting local people on line.
Chris talked about Knowle West and said that the day has gone when you could get local people to go into spaces for training. He told me that he thinks that local people want less consultation and more action. He said that, instead of trying to get people to attend training sessions, the emphasis needs to be on going into people’s homes to work with them.
Chris told me that he has recently obtained funding from UKonline for someone to go around door-to-door to do training in internet and email and also to help people work out how they can use digital technology to ends that are useful to them. He said that Steve Woods of Bristol Wireless has been doing this to a certain extent already.
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Technology - an age thing? Some random thoughts
October 9, 2006 Posted by Woodsy in : Education, Digital Challenge, e-society, Learning, Skills, jobs , 1 comment so farToday The Register has a thought-provoking article about youth, age and technology. Its speculates how will the jobs market cope with accommodating both the less technically gifted older workers (presumably those in their 50s like yours truly) with the influx of younger workers who have grown up with the PC/web/instant messenging/blogging/mashing culture of the 21st century. Another factor discussed is the frequent over-estimation of the IT skills of older workers by employers.
Needless to say, this got me thinking.
From my perspective the situation is not as simplistic as the author of The Register article seems to believe. True, there are plenty of older workers whose IT skills leave much to be desired. On the other hand, there’s a large group of graduates who had their first experience of computing over 3 decades ago - and I’m not referring solely to the first wave of computer science graduates. I’m a modern languages graduate, but my alma mater in its infinite wisdom decided we should study additional subjects so that we did not get too specialised. In the 2nd year this was ‘computer appreciation’. Yes, a bunch of language students was let loose to play with the college mainframe - a large beast kept in its own air-conditioned space, with disc drives standing 1 metre tall, and with which one communicated by keyboard or punch cards. (more…)
