Ethical IT is part of The Ethical Property Company who buy properties and develop them as centres that bring charities, social enterprises, community and campaign groups together to share skills and ideas. Ethical IT specialises in the communication requirements and system issues of the social change sector, and provides tailored, cost-effective solutions.
Key Green ICT successes [...]
Britain’s Digital Inclusion Champion, Martha Lane Fox has been seen widely in the press this week highlighting the importance of internet access and skills, particularly to the Country’s poorest households . The BBC website has video of an interview conducted with HardTalk, and she has also spoken to the Today programme on Radio 4, the [...]
Have you ever wonder what your carbon footprint actually looks like? Measuring green house gas emissions gives an accurate, but abstract, calculation of the quantity of CO2 released into the atmosphere but it can be difficult to visualise precisely what this means.
The Carbon Quilt is an online application that translates these calculations into a visual [...]
The Knowle West Media Centre is a UK Online centre and as part of the national Get Online Week KWMC is holding a Get Online Day on Friday the 23rd of October.
The all day event will feature:
Prizes for the oldest person participating and for the best story about how getting on line has helped
Open training [...]
Connecting Bristol is delighted that Martha Lane Fox, Digital Inclusion Champion and co-founder of LastMinute.com, will be visiting Bristol on Friday to find out more about the city’s work on Digital Inclusion and to help formulate ideas for the Government’s new Digital Inclusion Task Force, which Martha Chairs.
Twitter was instrumental in arranging the visit – [...]
Knowle West Media Centre – Web Developer
6 months contract initially £20k – £25k per annum pro rata dependant on experience
Knowle West Media Centre is looking for a skilled Web Developer to work on in house, community and client websites. You will be able to come up with creative solutions to increase traffic to a number [...]
People who end up working in Digital Inclusion often start off somewhere completely different. Connecting Bristol knows of influential digital inclusion practitioners who have studied politics, web usability, archeology and even Fine Art! Many get involved in Digital Inclusion because it is something they feel passionately about, rather than as a result of [...]
The broadband industry will be able to use the estimated £250 million underspend in the BBC’s digital switchover fund to bring internet access to everyone in the U.K by 2012, under plans unveiled by the chancellor in last weeks budget.
“It is vital to ensure the entire country and economy benefits from the digital [...]
A new website that has just been launched for the Bristol area.
ecojam.org, a new one-stop website for Bristol’s growing green and ethical scene, is taking a fresh approach to local environmentalism. Launched by researchers at the University of Bristol, it’s a place for you to discover local businesses and initiatives, search for ethical jobs, trade [...]