Posted on July 14, 2008 by watfordgap
Who taught you how to use a knife and fork or how to ride a bike?
Did anyone go to a formal class to learn these skills?
How did you learn to use a PC keyboard or a mouse?
More than likely someone showed you how to do it, you didn’t enroll on a course and take weeks to learn [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by watfordgap
Came up to London today to meet Jane Robbins from the CLG Digital Inclusion team (you must watch the video on the wiki BTW!). Lots to talk about, particularly on overcoming barriers to use of technology by individuals and groups. What stops groups using technology … is it fear, cost, change, scale, confusing terminology - [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by watfordgap
I’ve been at the Digital Inclusion 2008 conference today …. an event that I should have been helping David Wilcox and Dave Briggs live blog in words and video….
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Only by the blank space above you can see this didn’t happen! Apologies! The lesson I have learnt is that you can’t participate fully in an event [...]
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