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Many people and communities who already experience economic, social and health inequalities also face digital exclusion. Connecting Bristol is working in partnerships across the City to develop and implement a suite of projects that are engaging the community in producing digital content, building community capacity and skills and increasing neighbourhood connectivity and e-participation.

Job: Wikimedia looking for Chief Executive

by Kevin 18/07/2011 in Bristol

In January this year Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikimedia, came to Bristol to talk about the development and future plans of the foundation. The webcast is available on the Bristol City Council website.
Wikimedia are now looking for a UK based Chief Executive. If you feel you might have the credentials to lead and grow the [...]

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‘Go On Adopt a Care Home’ wins ISPA Digital Inclusion Award

by Kevin 08/07/2011 in Bristol

Congratulations to Go On Adopt a Care Home, winner of lasts nights Internet Service Providers Association Digital Inclusion Award. Connecting Bristol were on the shortlist for this award along with Age UK, Finerday, South West Internet CIC and Three. Go ON Adopt a Care Home do excellent work encouraging schools in the UK to “adopt” [...]

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Race Online Launches Refurbished Computer Scheme

by Kevin 26/05/2011 in Bristol

Bristol City Council has been operating a hugely popular computer reuse scheme for the last six months. For £35 eligible applicants get a refurbished computer (including flat screen monitor, keyboard and mouse), telephone support and advice on how best to get connected to the Internet. The demand for machines has been incredible, with over [...]

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Blogging live from “Silver Surfers Day”, John James Court, Lockleaze

by Kevin 20/05/2011 in Bristol

This event has been organised by Housing21 to celebrate Silver Surfers Day. Upto 150 older people are expected to come along today to get hands on experience of a wide range of digital tech, including iPads, Wii, digital cameras, and to hear about the Councils Computer Recycling scheme.
MP for Bristol North West, Charlotte Leslie, will be [...]

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“Ideas are Beautiful”: Crowd Soucing for communities

by Kevin 11/05/2011 in People

Ideas are beautiful has been designed as a website to help highlight local issues and co-design potential solutions. The interface breaks down the ‘Challenges’ posed by users into a number of simple categories, but also displays these challenges on a map, which illustrates what is most concerning people in your location. There is also the [...]

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Volunteer small chunks of your time to charity by mobile phone

by Kevin 21/04/2011 in Bristol

Orange have launched an iPhone app which enables people to give small amounts of their time to support a range of charities. The Do Some Good app enables users to volunteer bite sized chunks of their time, when and where it’s convenient, through their mobile phone. The sorts of activities available should take no more [...]

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€20,000 prize pool on offer in Open Data Challenge

by Kevin 08/04/2011 in Bristol

The Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Forum Academy and the Share PSI initiative are organising a competition challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
The Open Data Challenge has four main categories:

Ideas – Anyone can suggest an idea for projects which [...]

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Simpl – the social innovation matchmaking service

by Kevin 06/04/2011 in People

FutureGov have produced Simpl (Social Innovation MarketPlace) as a way of connecting public sector organisations with people with ideas, to help generate positive social change. In essence its a matchmaking service where authorities can post the issues they face, and others can post their idea and the things they need to develop the solution. [...]

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Event: “The Art of Immersion”, 18.00-1900, 12th April 2011, Watershed

by Kevin 23/03/2011 in Bristol

Frank Rose, author, and editor of Wired is appearing at the Watershed to present his ideas arguing that we are no longer just passive consumers of mass media, and that by creating content through youtube, twitter and blogs, we are media.
Tickets for the event are available from Watershed and are priced at £7.20 (£5.60 concessions)  

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