There are 10 million people in the UK still without an internet connection. This one-in-six population are increasingly excluded from the opportunities and conversations of the world. The statistics speak for themselves – shopping and paying bills through the internet make “average savings of £560 a year” and unemployed people who learn [...]
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 [...]
Show us a Better Way is part of the Government’s Power of Information Review.
Over the last few months, Show Us a better Way has encouraged citizens to suggest creative ideas about how public information might be shared and used more effectively.
The winners have just been announced…
Can I recycle it?
UK Cycling
Catchment Areas
Location of Postboxes (in rural [...]
Frequently as a PR company we have the need for stakeholder and one-to-one communications, but in a time poor and disparate industry it can be hard to keep in contact with our network. One of the staple skills of a journalist or PR is to build a powerful and far-reaching network to obtain and distribute [...]
Wherever you are, if you don’t have a map, there’s a chance you’ll get lost. This chance increases exponentially in more complex environments. With approximately one hundred million websites scattered around the virtual globe it doesn’t come much more complex than the internet. Information Architects in Japan have organised 300 of the most prominent websites [...]
Have you ever wondered how new media could help to grow your business? Connecting Bristol are supporting a seminar, in association with Business West, that could answer this question and help you take advantage of the power of new media and Web 2.0.
The seminar will give a comprehensive overview of how to use online ‘new [...]
Green maps show sites of environmental significance such as green goods and services, areas of open space, toxic hot-spots etc. They make use of a broadly recognised set of map icons called the Green Map System developed in New York in the 1990s. Green mapping has the potential to facilitate the spread of innovative greening [...]
Bristol City Council and Public-i Group Ltd, with support from the International Teledemocracy Centre at Napier University, have launched a new open source e-Petitioning tool specifically designed for Local Government.
The new service, which went live in January 2008, has already had over 8000 signatures and 5 new petitions. [...]
In connection with the 5th Safer Internet Day on 12 February 2008, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, presents a selection of statistics concerning internet activities, security concern and virus attacks.
Concerns in the UK about internet safety seem relatively low. 53% of people in the UK use the internet for shopping compared to [...]