by Sharon Mayo | Aug 22, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Economy, Jobs
Stockport’s Radical Digital Strategy aims to help us make the most of the digital-age possibilities for the people of Stockport and our local economy. Digital Place means having the infrastructure, skills and networks for digital start-ups, scale-ups, and established...
by Chloe Day, Claire White and James Wilson | Aug 9, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Claire White and James Wilson are digital inclusion officers for Starting Point Community Learning Partnership, the community lead for the DigiKnow alliance. Chloe Day is a community organiser who runs their Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme. Families who...
by Local Digital | Aug 7, 2023 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Local Digital have created this spotlight and video to showcase our Family Context project, one of the projects funded by the Local Digital Fund. Read more Local Digital council spotlights. In 2018, Stockport Council’s Family Context project was awarded funding...
by Craig Hughes | Jul 17, 2023 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Late last year, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) announced a new round of the Local Digital Fund, and in March, we were awarded funding for a digital project to improve hospital discharges to social care. What problem are we trying to...
by Kathryn Rees | Jul 10, 2023 | Architecture, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital Practice, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Five years ago, we were among the founding signatories of the Local Digital Declaration. Since then, hundreds of other local authorities and supporting organisations have signed, and over 300 organisations will celebrate Digital Declaration Month this July. The...
by Rachael Turner | Jul 3, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Jobs
Rachael Turner is a Director at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. Following the popularity of their free beginners’ coding course for young people earlier this year, they are pleased to announce details of two further courses. The...