The Tinder Foundation, formerly known as UK Online Centres, is running its annual ‘Get Online’ week during 14-20 October 2013 with the aim of helping tenants to improve their digital skills and reduce digital exclusion. Thousands of Get Online week events will happen throughout the UK in UK online centres, libraries and community venues. Tinder…
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Digital Inclusion
Digital Deal – Successful bids announced
The 12 successful bidders for the government’s ‘Digital Deal’ were announced in August, with £400,000 of funding from the Department for Work & Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government alongside the same amount matched by the winning bidders. The Digital Deal is intended to encourage more tenants in social housing to get…
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Manchester University reviews the ‘Digital by Default’ report
In the networked society and digital economy, global information flows are creating new patterns of communication and exchange, arguably rendering traditional urban patterns almost obsolete. However, the gap between the haves and the have-nots has the potential to continue to widen, both online and offline, with possible new forms of inequality emerging. Housing Technology’s ‘Digital…
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Post Office’s walk-in service for digital inclusion
Post Office branches now offer a free service where counter staff can print the nearest internet access points to customers’ homes. The Post Office, Online Centre Foundation and other partners have for the first time brought together the information about internet courses across the UK to create a single database. 11,800 Post Office branches can…
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Affinity Sutton partners with Stone Group for affordable PCs for tenants
Affordable recycled PCs made available to housing association’s tenants in drive to get residents online Stone Group is providing Affinity Sutton with cut-price recycled PCs as part of the housing provider’s ‘Get Connected’ programme, set up to help get tenants online ahead of the introduction of new government initiatives such as universal credit. The recycled…
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Regenda promotes digital inclusion for older residents
Regenda Group is helping elderly residents in its sheltered schemes to learn how to access the web and email through a new online service which lets them use the internet safely from the comfort of their communal lounges. Known as MyLinqs, the simple and secure web-based TV system has been specially developed for older people,…
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