by Sharon Mayo | Nov 16, 2022 | Collaboration, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Economy, Jobs
The first meeting of the new Stockport Digital Network will take place on Friday, 9 December, at Stockport Business Innovation Centre in Broadstone Mill. This is an opportunity for digital businesses to come together to share experiences and hear from speakers about...
by Nicola Thompson | Nov 11, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Sky Cares and Age UK Stockport are DigiKnow partners who run regular digital support sessions at several locations in Stockport, helping people get online. Nikki Thompson, who leads the community projects and volunteer work at Sky in Stockport, tells us more about...
by Tom Laws | Nov 4, 2022 | Collaboration, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Economy
Creating a Digital Place is one of the three pillars of Stockport’s Radical Digital Strategy. To succeed in this, we need to grow our employment opportunities and ensure our local workforce has the digital skills businesses need to thrive in a digital age. In this...
by Adrian Davies | Oct 31, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Following the great work on the Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) project, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have now announced the exciting next steps to light up the fibre with a state-of-the-art, high-performance data network – the GM One Network. In...
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...
