People who received a device for Christmas and are unsure how to use it are being urged to call on Dorset’s volunteer digital champions for help. Dorset Council has a team of volunteers who provide both face-to-face and over-the-phone support to anyone who needs help with technical issues – including how to use and set… Read more Dorset’s Digital Champions can help people use their Christmas gadget gifts
A free training programme has now recruited and trained 750 special advisors to help Dorset’s digitally excluded residents get online. Called the ‘Embedded Digital Champion (EDC)’ programme, the Dorset Council-run course aims to train 1,000 of the county’s frontline workers by 2023. This is to help make sure no one is left behind in an… Read more Hundreds more people are helping to get Dorset residents online
Meet Brenda and Julie. Brenda is a Verwood resident who recently decided to learn some new digital skills. Julie is one of our volunteer digital champions, operating out of Verwood library, and has been helping Brenda. So what made Brenda book a digital champion session? She explained: “I’ve been retired 14 years. Obviously, technology has… Read more It’s never too late to learn new skills! Meet Brenda and Julie
The Festival of the Future is now less than 2 months away! We recently recorded a podcast about the event with the organisers, you can listen to the full conversation by clicking here, or you can also read the write-up below. You can also get booked into the event by clicking here. What is the… Read more Festival of the Future AMA – what is it all about?
This year’s Festival of the Future will take place 10-14 October, and bookings are now live! This year we’ll be in Dorchester, Ferndown, Winfrith, Bridport and Weymouth, talking about some of the most exciting digital innovation happening in Dorset. The event is free to attend and you can choose whether you attend online or… Read more Festival of the Future 2022 | Official Trailer
The county’s first-ever live and interactive coding day for school children will be held on 15th September, as part of national coding week. The event will inspire children about the potential of coding for their increasingly digital futures. Coding is a great skill for future employment opportunities; it develops problem-solving techniques and encourages creativity and… Read more Dorset’s first dedicated coding day for school children to be held this autumn
Dorset Council’s army of volunteer digital champions is growing to help meet the growing digital skills need in the county. Six new recruits have come on board to join the council’s team of digital champions to help even more of the county’s residents get online. Research has shown that nearly a third of Dorset’s residents… Read more Dorset’s army of volunteer digital champions is growing
We’ve written on this blog before about our approach to transforming our customer experience. A key component of this has been the implementation of our new customer platform. The Digital Team was an early adopter of the customer platform for hosting our website, which involved a concentrated period of development, data migration, testing and deployment… Read more Developing our website
We’re excited to say that 250 people have decided to be like Digital Norma and help people get online by becoming an Embedded Digital Champion. It’s so good to see our army of volunteers growing, and we’re so proud to have hit this milestone. Have you met Norma yet? She’s a Dorset resident who works… Read more Join 250 other people and become a Digital Embedded Champion!
We’ve used a multi-disciplinary team to deliver our ‘Planning for the Future’ work to create and transform our new Dorset Planning Authority from six legacy councils, following the creation of Dorset Council.
