A Pecha Kucha scrapbook of our journey: Tecnology in the margins tackling technology together

Who? 2

Our locations and transnational partners

In the East Midlands region of the UK, DAIN recruited and trained over 100 unemployed individuals to help over 1000 people in their local communities.

Launch movie What we did to 2010 EYV2011 Relay E-inclusion awards Berlin Brussels..... and films were made about the project. Inspiring Learning Award winners ALW 2012

Barriers in ‘The Digital Divide’ ? Access to equipment English as a second language Lack of confidence Negative experiences of learning SECURITY Relevance Negative experiences PRIVACY with ICT Fear Dyslexia Embarrassment literacy needs Cost of hardware and software Cost of connectivity 6

Solutions? ? ? ? ? ? ? What works for….. ? ? ? ? ? ? BAMER and New and Emerging communities Older People Women Young people NEET ‘Different strokes for different folks?’ 7 What is the right hook for you?

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Digital activists Getting certificates at the end of the training course

Digital activists helped people with getting an address choosing a service provider shopping online dating online looking at holiday venues booking tickets using skype uploading photos writing memoirs accessing services and much more joining facebook doing google searches creating a CV searching for jobs building their family tree

Very very good tasters. 1 to 1 really helps I can’t help notice the joy on people’s faces when they realise that they’ve actually learnt something useful to them for a change. This kind of help is not available anywhere else I suddenly realised they were talking to me as a responsible adult, which no-one has done for a long time. What people said about DAIN And our satisfaction ratings!

Training course materials are available for anyone to use as a guest on the community learning environment. and as an offline workbook

Digital activists were involved in every aspect, including the steering group. We used social media all through the project

Volunteers received: Full time use of laptop and dongle Basic 20 hour training Additional CPD and workshops = 90% to 100% participation and contribution rate with support = % contribution rate without WHY?

‘On several occasions during interviews, respondents spontaneously mimicked the beep beeping sound of the library computers and discussed the anxiety that it and other temporal constraints induced because they could not save their work fast enough. Stephanie offers: ‘I can’t even really concentrate on what I am doing because I am so stressed that I will run out of time’. (Robinson, 2009: 497).

Robinson concludes that ‘At the mercy of spatial-temporal urgencies that do not encumber their more advantaged peers, these youth develop an attitude antithetical to skholè in which efficiency is their primary goal. Buffeted by the winds of their life circumstances, they develop a task-oriented information habitus that frames appropriate internet use in terms of waste avoidance. Looking for unambiguous payoffs, they enact the ‘taste for the necessary’ that Bourdieu attributes to people socialized in conditions of scarcity and want.’ (Robinson, 2009: 505). Robinson, L (2009) ‘A Taste for the Necessary’ Information, Communication and Society, 12:4,

FAST FORWARD 20 years

Digital activists Getting certificates at the end of the training course

Life Long Learning The journey is getting longer and faster by the day... But learners and students need to remain central in new models of delivery Do we know what is best for you? 19

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