by Tom Ward | Oct 28, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Background Twenty years ago, most commercial and residential users accessed the internet over the UK’s ageing network of copper wire-based telephone circuits. Due to the technology involved, copper circuits could only work at slow or very slow speeds...
by Chris Bennett | Oct 20, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
We are Community Computers, a not-for-profit project delivered by local charity Renewal North West, and we exist to tackle digital exclusion, unemployment and e-waste through repairing and refurbishing donated tech. We’re working with Stockport Council and are part of...
by Helen Johnson | Oct 13, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Did you know something that we do well in Stockport is encouraging and helping people to ‘go digital’? In a world where it seems you need to download an app to do anything or remember a password for the littlest thing, right on your doorstep, there are so...
by Kerry Scott | Oct 5, 2022 | DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
The Co-operative Bank’s Digital Bees network is a DigiKnow partner, committed to helping people get online and improve their digital skills. On Friday 14 October, they are running Digital Drop-in sessions to help people across the North West feel safer and more...
by Clara Jones | Sep 26, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Next month is Digitober across Greater Manchester, a month-long focus on digital, which includes the Get Online Week campaign to help people improve their digital skills. In this blog, Clara Jones, Head of Digital Inclusion at Starting Point Community Learning...
by Sharon Mayo | Sep 19, 2022 | Digital Stockport, Economy
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...
