Digital Activist Inclusion Network - DAIN

DAIN is an action research volunteer project part funded by the European Social Fund and designed to develop, test and deliver approaches to challenge the digital divide and help widen participation in employment and learning across the East Midlands.  It is led by the WEA East Midlands.

The project will recruit and train at least one hundred digital activists.  They will be supported to engage and work with over 3000 digitally excluded people in the region.  It is transnational and there are two trips to visit other European projects working in a similar way.

The digital activists use a community learning environment created on Moodle and the DAIN website provides regular updates on the progress of the project.

A variety of tools will be developed to support digital engagement with the communities of place, interest and identity targeted by the project.  A regional network will be established to share information, advice and resources.

The project’s key purpose is to identify approaches that enable people to begin to use technology effectively to improve their skills for employment and learning.

The project is designed to recruit new digital activists and train them during the first two years of the project.

In the final year of the project, there will be a focus on disseminating experience at local, regional and national level.

The work will raise levels of ‘digital participation', by providing new and flexible opportunities for adults to develop skills in the use of the online world.

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