Newport University have now released research around the issues of digital inclusion, and this includes some video which I helped with recently and in which I promote the place of social enterprise in addressing digital inclusion as well as reflections on the digital inclusion strategy.
The work being supported in Newport communities is an excellent example of how social enterprise can address these issues, and how helping people to make more of digital connections, skills and communications can really help build the ’social glue’ of our communities and help put people back in touch.
You can find the research and videos online here - http://idl.newport.ac.uk/newportdigital
“Hardware requirements: Adobe Flash player v9 or above, Screen resolution of 1024×768 or above & Javascript must be turned on.” So, it doesn’t work on community-developed software like MPlayer or Totem – and since when are Flash player and Javascript hardware? Where’s the “play in standalone player” link?
I left them a feedback comment along those lines and it demanded I pass an eyetest or a hearing test. I got through after a few attempts. I’d love to share your enthusiasm, but it’s videos on a site I can’t watch on a site which has just made me feel like a second-class citizen when I sent feedback. It feels rather anti-social to me.
By: MJ Ray on 23 April, 2009
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