Practice what you preach

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 - [...]

Inclusion and Justice … are you in ?

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 [...]

Dad in a Hoodie! Not.

I was in a meeting in Hull this afternoon with Colin Harrison (Yorkshire & Humber ICT champion) when I mentioned that an event, a funding source or an relevant topic for the sector only needed to be briefly mentioned and it would be up on Colin’s blog before the end of the day! The blog [...]

Sperical Objects

There’s a lot around at the moment about the 9 themes that Capacitybuilders plan to fund next year, so I’ll not go over that ground, however…
What amused me today is on the ThirdSector website there are two boxes, one a link to a quote by Mark Waddington of War Child - “IT is without doubt [...]

Busy Bee

At the NAVCA annual conference today here at Keele and catching time to blog in a slight lull.
Yes its true, it is part way through the second day and this is the first real time I have had to post anything! The reason being that the ICT Hub exhibition stand has been busy with interested [...]