November 2008

For digital inclusion to work, wifi must be freely accessible

  • November 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm
  • Categories: Accessibility,Digital engagement,Social media

  • If the powers-that-be are so keen on digital inclusion, and for citizens to embrace social media, then they need to ensure that connectivity is completely pervasive. For example, the UK government wants to set up a scheme of ‘digital mentors‘. These people would help other people learn how to use ’social media’ to get their [...]

Digital mentors Birmingham meet, 12 November 2008

  • November 14, 2008 at 4:30 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I haven’t blogged here much recently. I intend to try and rectify that soon, but in the meantime I’d like to point you point you towards digitalmentor.org. On Wednesday a bunch of people met in Birmingham to share their thoughts about the CLG’s digital mentor tender. It was a very hastily organised meeting, but was [...]

Today I shall be spending 11 hours on the bus

  • November 11, 2008 at 9:00 am
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I’ve been absent for a while but I hope to rectify that today. Because today I shall be taking part in Jon Bounds’ brilliantly mad idea to spend eleven hours on the Number Eleven bus on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. 2008. (Nothing’s perfect.) Why? If we really need a reason, here’s Jon’s: [...]