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Digital Inclusion
How do we ensure that all citizens, especially the disadvantaged, benefit from new technologies?
| Date: | Thursday 27 November 2008 |
| Venue: | East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC) University Park, Nottingham, NH7 2RJ |
| Ref: | C1639 |
| Fee*: | £195 Statutory / Private Organisations £175 NIACE members £125 VCS learning providers (Includes lunch, tea/coffee.) NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background] [Aims] [Audience] [Programme] [Application Form]
Background
In January 2008 the government recognised the importance of ICT and social inclusion by appointing a Minister for Digital Inclusion, with a cross-departmental cabinet committee working to develop a strategy to ensure that all citizens, especially the disadvantaged, benefit from new technologies.
A third of adults are ‘not connected’ to new technologies. This has important consequences for those involved in implementing public policy, and for those involved in 21st century learning delivery.
Update
In Oct 2008 the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released ‘Delivering Digital Inclusion: An Action Plan for Consultation’. It is available to download from http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/deliveringdigitalinclusion.
To find out more about the main issues you can also view this short film at www.digiteam.org.uk.
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Aims
This conference will enable participants to discuss and debate ways of addressing social exclusion through the use of ICT.
The conference will explore:
 | implications of proposed government digital equality strategy |
| the development of ICT skills of socially disadvantaged learners |
| effective approaches to providing meaningful access and skills |
| engaging learners through and with technology |
Participants will be able to:
| contribute to ongoing policy development through contribution to the debate |
| increase their knowledge of both policy and practice |
| consider the issues of improving ICT skills in areas of social deprivation |
| consider the approaches adopted by others to promoting digital inclusion |
Audience
The event will be of particular interest to:
| Managers and workers in organisations using ICT to tackle disadvantage |
| Managers and practitioners working for learning providers offering learning opportunities in regeneration and other areas of social deprivation |
| ICT teachers, tutors and trainers |
| Managers with responsibility for ICT User Skills delivery. |
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Programme
| 09:45 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:15 | Welcome and introduction to the day from the Chair Chair: Dr Alan Clarke, Associate Director, ICT and Learning, NIACE |
| 10:30 | Keynote address: A new strategy for digital inclusion Wayne David MP, Deputy Minister for Digital Inclusion |
| 11:00 | Keynote Address: Chris Batt OBE, Consultant (retired) Chief Executive, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) |
| 11:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 11:45 | Tea/coffee break |
| 12:00 | Workshops (Please see the application form for desciptions)
1) Community Reporters Scheme
2) The work of a small learning centre in an area of social deprivation
3) Through Assistive Technology To Employment – The TATE Project
4) Reflecting on the first year of the functional skills pilot
5) An approach to digital inclusion
6) Homeshoring Call Centre Pilot and DC10plus Network |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Keynote address: Internet use in Britain: adult learning and the digital divide Dr Rebecca Eynon, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Insitute (OII) and Lecturer, Department of Education at University of Oxford |
| 14:15 | Workshops (repeated) |
| 15:15 | Interactive panel and plenary session |
| 16:00 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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Application Form
(For people not using the online reservation system above.)
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When you have printed out the Application Form, please complete the relevant sections on pages 7 & 8 and post them along with your purchase order (1) and/or cheque to: Gurjit Kaur, NIACE, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP or Fax it on 0116 254 8368. Please retain pages numbered 2 -6 for your information. For further information (or if you would like to be sent a paper version of the application form) please contact Gurjit Kaur, Tel: 0116 204 2833, email: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk stating your full postal address. (1) Application Forms from individuals must be
accompanied by a Sterling cheque or Banker's draft. Invoices will be raised on
organisations only if a Purchase Order is sent along with the Application Form.
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