Empowering your community with IT skills! - Liverpool

29 October 2008, Liverpool

Region: North West

Event topic: non ICT Hub event

In today's world being able to use Information Technology is as vital as reading and writing. Yet some people miss out on this vital skill, whether because they retired before learning for work, slipped out of the education 'loop' for some reason or simply felt too daunted at a crucial time in their lives. Bringing IT literacy programmes to these groups can feel challenging but it's also a tremendous opportunity to work communicatively and pro-actively and in a life-changing way with your clients.

If you want to spend a constructive, creative day with like-minded others finding out about the highly successful 'DU way' of bringing sustainable IT programmes into all sorts of communities, and exploring in detail how to use outreach opportunities like Silver Surfers' Day, then the workshop below could be for you.

You will benefit from this workshop if you are a community leader and action-taker whose remit it is to help your community members:

become socially included in general or specifically through digital inclusion,
have increased confidence in themselves and (possibly) employability,
become more confident around using today's computer technology, and its applications to everyday life for ANY reason.
You will benefit if you are someone who cares about the special practicalities of working with older people, unconfident people or people with accessibility issues (e.g., older people, long-term unemployed people, or parents at home, or those with mobility and learning difficulties).

You are likely to be looking for encouragement, plans, strategies, sharing of best practice, brainstorming ideas. You may be aiming to bring both sustainable media literacy programmes as well as 'taster' media literacy programmes (Silver Surfers' Day Events specifically) into your organisation.

(NOTE Beneficiaries of these organisations can be any age or at any stage of their working life or retirement and may or may not have particular accessibility needs. We see it as increasingly important that any 'overlooked' groups are included and different groups may indeed be able to discover each other through these workshops and work together to mutual benefit.)

Examples of those who've attended other DU workshops include: library staff, teachers in any setting (eg, from primary schools that want to invite grandparents in for 'taster' IT sessions, to community colleges), community centre staff and managers, UK on-line Centre staff, U3A members, sheltered housing managers, resident involvement or tenant participation officers, computer recycling charities, commercial businesses who want to 'give something back' to their communities, widening participation and social inclusion experts at universities, or anyone who identifies themselves as interested.

Fee: £75 per head or £120 for two from same organisation

Who is it for?: Voluntary and community organisations, Infrastructure organisations

Organiser: Gill Adams or Brian Eisenberg, Digital Unite

Contact details: Gill Adams or Brian Eisenberg, Digital Unite, 0870 241 5091, gill.adams@digitalunite.net

Website: http://www.digitalunite.net/docs/workshops.html

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