Category Archives: Digital Inclusion

Rural Community Broadband Fund

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

Over the past year, or so, I have been working with James Saunby of Grey Sky Consulting on a number of bids to the Government’s Rural Community Broadband Fund. We’ve been working with communities, local authorities, and other partners in … Continue reading →

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Our Digital Planet is back on the road

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

I am very pleased to report that Our Digital Planet will be back on the road shortly. Thanks to the support of Nominet Trust and Wigan Council, we will be in Wigan Town Centre from 24th to 29th May, and then … Continue reading →

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Social Technology in Later Life – Let’s Have Some Collaboration

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

This is another post in the series on Social Technology in Later Life on which I am collaborating with David Wilcox, among others, in an exploration initially stimulated by Nominet Trust. David has set out here some issues for the … Continue reading →

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Let’s use audio to spread best practice

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

My thoughts on using audio to spread best practice from conferences and events

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Social Housing – Sleepwalking into the digital nightmare?

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Another post inspired by a conversation on Twitter, which followed on from my previous post about disruption from the bottom up. The conversation turned to the UK Government’s Department for Work and Pensions having a target of 80% of Universal … Continue reading →

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Disruption from the bottom up

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

We hear a lot about the internet causing “disruption”, i.e. radically shaking up and undermining established ways of doing things. I’ve been thinking about some real disruption being led from sources which might seem unlikely. Now, I’m a great believer … Continue reading →

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More about Storytelling

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

You may remember I wrote this post about Storytelling after I delivered a workshop on Digital Storytelling for One Blackpool in January. Since then, Storytelling has become something of a theme for me, and I have returned to it for presentations … Continue reading →

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Communicating the pace of technological change

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Returning to my theme of that murky world I inhabit a lot of the time between the uber-geeks and the digitally excluded, I want to focus in how people view the pace of technological change. A couple of things have … Continue reading →

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Our Digital Planet – Phase 2

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Our Digital Planet Phase 2 is now in the planning stage. We are looking for cities, towns, neighbourhoods and organisations to come forward to host the Our Digital Planet 2013 tour. We can offer the opportunity to be part of … Continue reading →

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Let’s use technology to unlock ingenuity

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

My friend Abi Manifold reminded me, through a post on Twitter, of Sugata Mitra’s inspirational TED talk about how he had embedded computers in walls in Delhi which children had used to educate themselves. I think there are so many … Continue reading →

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