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Dorset Council – bringing the future to the Jurassic Coast

01/03/2021jamespryce No Comments

How do you bring the next-generation connectivity needed to create jobs, foster innovation and support communities to one of the UK’s most beautiful rural locations with a UNESCO-designated world heritage coastline? That’s the challenge faced by Dorset Council, which is leading a consortium of local, national and international partners delivering the £7 million 5G RuralDorset… Read more Dorset Council – bringing the future to the Jurassic Coast

Digital training during the Covid pandemic

09/02/2021rachelbaker No Comments

A guest blog from Dorset Care Record’s training manager, Catherine Snook, who highlights how digital changes have made information more relevant and easier to use The importance of accessible, digital training content has never been greater than it is today. Here at the Dorset Care Record we have proactively reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic and… Read more Digital training during the Covid pandemic

A tale of two lockdowns – how digital transformed home schooling in the Baker household

03/02/2021rachelbaker No Comments

I will always remember the fear and trepidation I felt on March 18 2020 when the announcement came – all schools were to close. It was difficult to believe the events unfolding around us, this was a situation our generation had never faced. And the worry for my children – and all children’s future –… Read more A tale of two lockdowns – how digital transformed home schooling in the Baker household

Digital Dorset Christmas Story

17/12/2020Digital Team No Comments

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

Dorset’s Festival of the Future hailed a success

09/12/2020Digital Team No Comments

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 selects Digital Place as its open digital platform

11/11/2020Digital Team No Comments

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

Celebrations for #DigitalDorset

22/10/2020Digital Team No Comments

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

Festival of the Future – Free three day virtual event for Dorset

24/09/2020Digital Team No Comments

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

Dorset Reloaded – cows, satellites and Covid19

28/07/2020Digital Team No Comments

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

Changing Dorset? It certainly has.

15/05/2020Digital Team 3 Comments

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.