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Digital Champion Mike Watson with a client

Kudos for Dorset’s Digital Champions

If you think everyone must be online by now, think again. Lots of people aren’t confident using the internet and are becoming increasingly excluded as the world we live in becomes more digital. Superfast Dorset’s Digital Champion volunteers are working hard to change that in our county . . . and their support has now… Read more Kudos for Dorset’s Digital Champions

Winner of Campaign for Learning Impact Award 2018

We know from others that to become a digital organisation you need the right culture, and that developing the right skills in the workforce helps this. My first stop when thinking about how we implemented our digital strategy was our learning and development (L&D) colleagues. I wanted to make sure we incorporated the development of digital skills… Read more Winner of Campaign for Learning Impact Award 2018

Services Week – Day 2

Today we ran our mobile innovation space in Wareham, responding to feedback we had during learning at work week to do more in other parts of the county.

The idea of the space is to get people thinking about the art of the possible, and how we could use the latest technology when designing services.

People were really enthusiastic. The virtual reality being used to help bring new property designs to life was a hit, with the same technology being used by TRICURO to look at how it can enhance people’s care and support.

 Virtual Reality in Action!

The use of ‘bots’ on our intranet was welcomed, making it much quicker and easier to access information, and the augmented reality continued to be popular with people enjoying seeing drawings leap off the page.

Voice assistance is growing and becoming familiar in people’s personal Iives.
Having the opportunity to have a go at work and see what else it can do when connected up to other devices was eye opening, including the potential for it to support people living independently.

What was great is people were learning from each other, there were lots of questions and seeing the technology sparked new ideas of how we could use it. #digitaldorset #servicesweek

Looking back and plans for the year ahead

Hello and Happy New Year! This blog will be getting a make-over for 2019. You can expect to start seeing blog posts from our colleagues across Dorset, from digital inclusion and health as well as local government, who want to share news about their local digital projects with you. Just before this new group of… Read more Looking back and plans for the year ahead