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Welcome to the Wired Up Communities
Practitioners' Toolkit
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This toolkit is a useful guide to planning,
setting up and running a community based
ICT project, whether it is in a deprived
inner city area or a remote and isolated
rural community. Aimed at community
practitioners, local authorities, researchers
and governmental policy makers, the
toolkit draws upon the experience of
the seven Wired
up Communities pilot projects
that have been running since early 2001.
The toolkit reflects the programme
of work undertaken by Halcyon
Consultants and its associates
for the Department for Education and
Skills since August 2000 and includes
reports of questionnaire
interviews with the project managers,
material from the four Wired up Communities
conferences,
a series of monthly e-newsletters
distributed to WuC project managers
and a number of themed focus groups
run with WuC project staff.
A report by Halcyon Consultants outlining
the Wired up Communities programme
has been published and is available
for download in pdf by clicking here.
Each of the seven projects was funded
by a capital grant of over £1m
from the Department for Education
and Skills and a research
evaluation undertaken by Leeds
Metropolitan University assesses their
impact.
Useful documentation from the seven
projects is available for download
and the toolkit offers the opportunity
to play the Wired Up Communities online
game.
The digital
divide issue is examined across
all seven projects in the context
of the push towards government
services online by 2005, finding
ways to encourage e-Citizenship through
e-democracy
and upskilling people by providing
e-learning
opportunities.
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