by Zoe Howard | May 23, 2019 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
It’s just over a year since the DigiKnow Alliance was formed, when Good Things Foundation, Stockport Council, The Prevention Alliance, Stockport Homes and Community Ambassador Starting Point joined forces to drive forwards a digital inclusion movement that aimed to...
by Ryan McMurdo | Feb 26, 2019 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
At Starting Point we have worked in informal, community-based adult education for nearly 10 years, specialising in digital inclusion. We offer 14 sessions a week across Stockport, aimed at helping people get online short-term and stay online long-term. Starting Point...
by Adam Micklethwaite | Oct 5, 2018 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Good Things Foundation is delighted to be working with Stockport Council, Starting Point Community Learning Partnership and The Prevention Alliance – and other organisations across the borough – to help thousands of Stockport residents lead better lives...
by Lee Emery | Mar 28, 2018 | Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Being online these days no longer feels optional; it’s a social and economic necessity. We live in a progressively digital world, where 90% of new jobs require digital skills, an increasing number of essential services are delivered online and if you’re not online...
by Lee Emery | Mar 15, 2018 | Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Visiting dignitaries. Life-saving service men and women. These are the type of people I’d expect to get invitations to Buckingham Palace; not someone who works in IT. So when HRH The Duke of York’s office offered a meeting at “your place or mine?” the response...
by Janet Wood | Jun 26, 2017 | Communities, DigiKnow
We recently hosted a workshop for organisations in Stockport who are interested in the digital skills agenda – supporting people to get online and improve their skills so that every citizen is fully able to participate, through digital means, in the connections,...
