Sam McLaren in the Digital team has been reflecting on the year using rhyme with a very festive accompanying video. This holiday tale you are about to be told, begins with the ways of new and old. A tale of… DIGITAL DORSET Our tale begins a long time ago, early 2020 but little did we… Read more Digital Dorset Christmas Story
Our press release has been issued summing up the October three-day Festival of the Future which took place online. You can catch up on the wealth of information as most of the sessions are available on the Digital Dorset YouTube channel. The Festival, which was part of national Digital Leaders week, has to be my… Read more Dorset’s Festival of the Future hailed a success
Dorset Council has selected Placecube to provide it with, Digital Place, an open digital platform designed to simplify how councils make and re-use local services online. The Digital Platform is a key enabler for the customer workstream in the Council’s transformation programme, in addition it will support contract convergence and application rationalisation. All of which will… Read more Dorset selects Digital Place as its open digital platform
Dorset Council is celebrating after being announced as the winner of the Digital Skills Award at the Connected Britain Awards. The award was given for the work going on across the county to help everyone in Dorset make the most of the digital tools available to them and make sure Dorset becomes a truly digital place. Cllr Peter Wharf, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Development and Change, said: ‘We have a vision for Digital Dorset. The council… Read more Celebrations for #DigitalDorset
Robots growing fields of wheat, the tiger who came to tea and virtual yoga: these are just some of the exciting sessions on offer for free at the upcoming Festival of the Future from 13 October. This brand-new virtual event combines fun and learning and helps us share the great things that are happening in Dorset. Think Bestival or Glastonbury, but with more tea, future-gazing and LinkedIn profiles. Cllr Peter Wharf, Portfolio Holder for Corporate Development and Change, said: ‘Some people might think digital isn’t… Read more Festival of the Future – Free three day virtual event for Dorset
Our most recent Digital Network event was memorable for two things: the first virtual network was the biggest yet, but the REMO software enabled us to herd our 92 attendees with ease, our vision for Dorset in the future included the powerful image of cows that text. The network has developed considerably since we started… Read more Dorset Reloaded – cows, satellites and Covid19
Two months ago we completed Changing Dorset, the second Digital Dorset podcast about digital skills. We had no idea, back then, how much Dorset was about to change or how vital digital skills would be to people’s ability to cope with lockdown. In the past eight weeks, all our lives have changed completely. At the… Read more Changing Dorset? It certainly has.
Dorset . . . cream teas, Enid Blyton, fossils and not one inch of motorway. That’s the image you have in mind, right? Sure, rural Dorset is a historic and incredibly beautiful place to live, work and visit. But who says a stunning landscape has to mean rubbish connectivity? We are leading a Government-backed £6.7… Read more 5Go mad in Dorset
What an incredibly strange few weeks it’s been . . . not least on the digital front. My mischievous cat Uhtred became an internet sensation. Apparently his standard trick of jumping into a cardboard box warrants almost a million views on LADbible – strange times. My youngest daughter recorded that footage and posted it on… Read more Viral videos, online lessons and interviews via camper van
I’ve always had the deepest respect for teachers and teaching assistants – big shout out to Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Pitfeld at Bridport Primary School – but really, you guys, wow! Dorset schools are taking different approaches to supporting children’s learning at home during school closure. My nine-year old’s school has gone digital for those… Read more Yay! We made it through our first year of home schooling! Wait – what do you mean it’s only been a week?
