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Category Archives: Older People
Our Digital Planet is back on the road
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
Posted in Digital Inclusion, Older People, Technology and Older People
Tagged #digitalinclusion, #ourdigitalplanet
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Communicating the pace of technological change
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
Posted in Digital Inclusion, Older People, Rural
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The future is mobile, and that means digital inclusion too
You know that image of the 7 ages of man, which starts with a chimpanzee, gradually moving into a human standing erect, and then moves on to someone at a desk, hunched over a computer? I won’t reproduce it here, … Continue reading
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Forget the new and shiny, how do we carry on our interests and passions in later life?
This morning I caught a little bit of an interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy on BBC Radio 4. Something he said struck a chord (maybe even literally) with me. He said that people in their sixties and seventies can still enjoy playing … Continue reading
