by Rachael Turner | May 3, 2023 | Collaboration, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Jobs
Rachael Turner is a Director at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. Here she provides an update on their free beginners’ coding course for young people, the subject of MadLab’s earlier blog, and feedback from some of the learners...
by Chris Bennett | Apr 25, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport
During ALL DIGITAL Weeks we are spotlighting the work of some of our DigiKnow partners. In 2021 Community Computers, a Stockport charity, joined the DigiKnow Alliance to set up a device recycling scheme to refurbish donated devices for people on low incomes and repair...
by Clara Jones | Apr 17, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport
This year DigiKnow is supporting the pan-European ALL DIGITAL Weeks campaign, raising awareness of digital skills for inclusion, empowerment, and employment. The ALL DIGITAL Network was set up to support Europeans with insufficient digital skills. The...
by Tanya King | Mar 14, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport
Tanya King is Head of Customer Engagement and Inclusion at Stockport Homes Group, one of the core partners of the DigiKnow Alliance. In my previous blog, I described the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Digital Pilot which has brought together internet...
by Sarah Burke | Mar 8, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence, Jobs
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Embrace Equity’, is being celebrated by The United Nations as ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. It aims to draw attention to the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social...
by Claire Wicher | Mar 2, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Economy
Claire Wicher is Head of Education and Skills at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. MadLab is running a FREE beginners’ coding course this spring, starting on 29th March and running for five weeks. Aimed at Stockport residents aged...