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Digital Inclusion Wales

by julzswitch 14/03/2008 in Events

Just back from a trip across the big bridge to the Digital Inclusion Wales Conference held at the All Nations Centre in Cardiff. I was asked to go along and present on the subject of ICT-based social enterprises, and found out that of the 180 registered delegates, 80 had opted for this workshop! Fortunately Simon [...]

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Save Money With A Fantastic New VOSCUR Service! – Give One In! Get One Back!

by julzswitch 13/03/2008 in Green ICT

Back in December you may have heard about the Voscur run ‘Give One In, Get One Back’ project.
Voscur, working with Byteback Computer recycling and Bristol Wireless, supported through the ICT Hubs’ Unmet Needs fund is running project to promote the recycling of old computer equipment and the re-use of machines. Those dumb boxes whose shelf [...]

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Technology and Planning

by julzswitch 12/03/2008 in Technology

Spent a day with staff from Black Development Agency, which is based on Russell Town Avenue in Bristol (yes, I do work in Bristol as well), and we had some discussions about the importance of technology in the overall planning of organisations. Its really interesting to find out how different organisations are using various planning [...]

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Local Hubs – win-win options

by julzswitch 11/03/2008 in Bristol

I am doing some research today ahead of an event next Wednesday in Devon which is bringing together people from public, private and third sector organisation to look at the development of local ICT ‘hubs’. The event is being promoted by Community Council of Devon and COSMIC jointly and has already engaged interest from the [...]

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Announcing the Connecting Bristol Bloggers

by Stephen Hilton 11/03/2008 in Bristol

Blogging creates a fantastic opportunity to experience the world through the words of others. It is also far easier to invite people to write stuff for you, rather than to do it all yourself! Therefore, we are delighted to announce that over the next two months, a series of Special Guest Bloggers [...]

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COSMIC sees through the storm

by julzswitch 10/03/2008 in Bristol

Hello Connecting Bristol, and thank you for asking me to be guest blogger for the week – I feel privileged to join in. I thought it would be useful to reflect each day on my role as Regional ICT Champion for the third sector here in the South West, as well as on my role [...]

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