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’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!
Meet Digital Norma – just an ordinary gal who is helping to make a huge difference to people’s lives. We now live in a world where nearly everything is moving online but in Dorset we still have nearly a third of residents who are digitally excluded in some way. One factor in being digitally excluded… Read more Be like Digital Norma and help get more people online
Did you know that nearly a third of all Dorset Council residents are digitally excluded in some way? This could be because people cannot afford broadband or devices, poor internet speeds or a lack of digital skills. Here at Digital Dorset we know just how important being able to get online is. The pandemic highlighted… Read more From getting online to improving your technical skills – Digital Dorset is here to help
Our volunteer Digital Champions are back in libraries and community centres across Dorset, giving face-to-face support to people who need tech advice. The sessions have to be booked in advance and are carried out in a Covid-secure environment. Meanwhile our Digital Hotline – 01305 221048 – is still very much operational for people who cannot… Read more Face to face or on the hotline – our Digital Champions are ready to help
After 18 months like no other, Dorset Council’s volunteer Digital Champions were at long last able to get together in person to share their experiences of the past year and a half. For the first time since all Digital Champion services were moved from libraries to the Digital Hotline in March 2020, our brilliant volunteers… Read more Championing the achievements of our digital champs
It had been years since Martin Pipe was last in a job centre and when he stepped through those doors again, little did he know that his life was about to change forever. Martin’s life was just starting to turn a corner after years of living with addiction. One of his first steps to recovery… Read more How Martin was Bourne again thanks to digital
Our Digital Champions are back in libraries and community centres giving face-to-face support to people who need tech advice. Sessions are underway at Sturminster Newton Learning Centre on Mondays (9.30am-12.30pm) and Wednesdays (9.30am to mid-afternoon), at Yarn Barn Centre in Beaminster (Wednesday mornings) and in the following libraries: Dorchester (Thursday afternoons), Gillingham (Saturday mornings), Weymouth… Read more Face to face or on the hotline – our Digital Champions are ready to help
You might have seen news items recently celebrating the achievements of Digital Dorset after benefiting from not one, but two major government announcements in a week. ‘Digital Dorset’ reflects the activity in the county to help improve people’s lives by using new and emerging technologies that are designed around their needs. It is about how we use… Read more What is Digital Dorset?
Our brilliant volunteer Digital Champions are helping to make a huge difference to people’s lives. One champion, Andy Taylor, recently helped reconnect a woman with her family via Zoom. And this was the feedback we received from the lady’s NHS Link Worker, Vicky Russell: “I have a patient with mental health issues who has been… Read more A huge thank you to our Digital Champions
