UK Youth Online

The UK Youth Online Network established through Ning is exploring how youth work and informal education professionals can support young people in a digital world.

NAVCA Conference using social media

Interesting post on Paul Webster’s Watfordgap’s Travels about the use of social media around the NAVCA National Conference last week.

Parliamentary Twittering success

Check out Parliament’s experience of using Twitter at UK Parliament Labs.

Images – add to or detract from websites?

The previous post on Broadband refers to the digital exclusion that currently exists across the EU states. This raises the dilemma to website designers of whether to include images, graphics and animations on websites or not.
When people browse to a website their computer has to download all this additional graphical data – slower and older [...]

EC call for ‘universal’ broadband

Regions of some European nations cannot currently get broadband and easily access data and images like those that appear on Blackpool Community News. And of course millions are still digitally excluded across the continent.
However, Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all.
See the BBC Link.

Online Mapping Tools to combat crime

If the local papers didn’t report a rash of car break-ins in your neighborhood, how would you know? The web opens up opportunities to find information without having to rely on which stories make it to the front page of the newspaper, or the lead story on the evening news. We need to be able [...]

Parliament – Reaching the YouTube Generation!

See how Parliament is reaching out using new media – click here. This is the production Blog of the UK Parliament Web Centre.

Digital Inclusion impacts on social inclusion

Digital inclusion, social impact: A research study by UK Online Centres attempts to show that increased ICT use can have benefits to individuals that build into hard, measurable (and fundable) outcomes.
The report is based upon the findings of 20 case studied projects involving 150 online centres reaching over 12,000 people. Findings include:

12,234 people engaged through [...]

Microsoft support for Childline

Microsoft are donating £1.3m in support and services to the NSPCC’s Childline Service. The support, which also includes space on the MSN Homepage, will seek to make it easier for children to contact Childline via the internet and text messaging.
Browse the Childline online services, which include a very useful guide to keeping safe on the [...]

iTech Resources at B4me

This BCN website seeks to bring news of some of the latest developments in ICT social and inclusive media, yet in our own backyard lies a wonderful existing resource.
Blackpool4me has its own iTech Channel full of technical guidance, resources and software. And in iTech – How to do It! there are some truly interesting, bizaare [...]