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Tech Support Guru

by Matt 21/10/2009 in Bristol

Knowle West Media Centre seeks a Tech Support. A flexible, friendly team player is needed to support the DEHEMS team in Knowle West.
Fifty energy meters need to be installed in local people’s homes and the support role will involve accompanying one of the DEHEMS team to homes and installing the meter and training users [...]

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South Bristol prepares for National Get Online Day – 23rd October 2009

by Stephen Hilton 12/10/2009 in Bristol

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 [...]

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Barbara Janke and Martha Lane Fox talk about Bristol the Digital City

by Stephen Hilton 25/08/2009 in Bristol

Bristol City Council’s Leader Barbara Janke and Martha Lane Fox, Champion for the Governments Digital Inclusion Task Force, discussing the potential impact of Digital Inclusion across the City.

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Study while you work for a MSc or Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Inclusion

by Stephen Hilton 08/07/2009 in Bristol

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 [...]

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Helping the non-line get online

by Kevin 16/01/2009 in People

If you are reading this the likelihood is that you’re fairly comfortable using technology to navigate your way around the web. Its estimated though that around 30% of the population don’t have the confidence or capability to take advantage of the benefits of belonging to the online community.
The Post Office have released a free Internet [...]

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New Digital Champion role

by Kevin 14/11/2008 in People

Digital Inclusion Minister Paul Murphy has announced that the Government are looking for a high profile figure to help promote the Digitaal Inclusion agenda.
The role was set out in the cross-Government report Delivering Digital Inclusion: An Action Plan for Consultation.
Guardian Technology Journalist Michael Cross has been speculating (not entirely seriously) as to which public figure [...]

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Socitim Digital Inclusion Workshop: Bristol, 19 November 1pm- 4.30pm

by Kevin 06/11/2008 in Bristol

Socitim Consulting are organising a workshop aimed at anyone addressing social exclusion or implementing digital inclusion, developing social policy or Local Area Agreements and Partnerships. The event is free to public, independent and voluntary sector delegates and begins with a buffet lunch. The Bristol event is part of a program of workshops taking place between [...]

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Community Barcamp: Sunderland, 24th November

by Kevin 05/11/2008 in Events

Sunderland will be hosting its first ‘Community Barcamp’ on Monday 24th November at the Stadium of Light.
BarCamps are democratic, user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.
The event, which is free to attend and runs from 6 til 8pm, will bring together people that use services in the community with [...]

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Get Online Day

by Kevin 21/10/2008 in People

This Friday, 24th October, is Get Online day. As you are almost certainly reading this online you may feel that this event isn’t all that relevant to you. However there may be someone you know, a friend or a member of your family, who would benefit from finding out how using the the internet isn’t [...]

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