Hull Digital – Successful Meet-Up

HULL DIGITAL MET LAST NIGHT in Hessle and was a great opportunity for the local “digiterati” to meet up. An important discussion took place on Digital Inclusion led by Helen Philpott from North East Lincolnshire. Helen showed a video from the Government funded Digital Inclusion Team which is republished below.
A range of useful devices from [...]

Talk About Local Un-Conference #TAL09

The Talk About Local “Un-Conference” takes place in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 3rd October 2009.
The event is a marvellous opportunity to bring together some of those people in the country who are trying to create local community websites as vehicles to inspire community action.
“Talk About Local is a project to give people in their communities a [...]

£156m Regeneration of Orchard Park in Hull – Superfast Broadband Opportunities

The Hull Daily Mail has reported that Orchard Park in Hull will benefit from £156 million to re-develop the area. As somebody who originally hails from the estate then this is interesting news – albeit with concern that decent properties will be culled and existing communities face uncertainty and upheaval.
The redevelopment will include the demolition [...]

Hull Digital Live Launches – An opportunity to prepare for a digital #hullvision.

Hull’s first digital and technology conference is coming soon.
The Hull Digital website comments that at this moment in time there is still a lot of things to iron out, plan, organise and fund, but the good news is, is that the ball is rolling! This is great news for the city and I hope an [...]

Digital Britain – We will pay towards universal broadband access!

In April this blogger asked who would be paying for the UK’s digital future. Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report has now proposed that the public will pay for this in two ways.
Taxation: Under the proposals reported by the BBC yesterday, everyone with a fixed-phone line will pay a small levy (a tax!) of £6.00 per [...]

Broadband – we could not live without it says Communications Consumer Panel research findings

Nearly three-quarters of people with broadband at home say that they couldn’t live without it and soon it will be essential for everyone, new research from the CCP (Communications Consumer Panel) has found.
The not online not included CCP Report report based on a survey of 2,000 adults identifies which services people use the internet for. [...]

Digital Britain – who pays?

Occasional rant from the Hedon Blog about all things digital:

The Digital Britain Summit took place last Friday 17 April 2009 at the British Library. This conference was designed to discuss the emerging ‘digital revolution’ and to ensure that Britain is at the front of technological innovation. A key aim is to secure universal broadband access [...]

Be included in the new digital age

The Hedon Blog is an example of new digital ‘citizen’ media which enables the ordinary Joes and Josephines of the world to publish to the web without having to recruit a skilled – often expensive – ‘geek’ to do the job for us. But this is just one aspect of the 21st century digital age [...]