Dorset Council and its residents are to play an important role in informing how adult social care will be provided in the future. The council was selected to work with the Department of Health and Social Care on a unique partnership to examine how our residents are referred into adult social care and how their… Read more Dorset Council is helping to lead the way to improving adult social care
A new digital initiative to help Dorset’s landlords make their homes more energy efficient has received national recognition. The Dorset Council ‘Minimum Energy Efficiency Savings’ project is a finalist in the Granicus 2022 Digital Public Sector Awards in the ‘new initiative’ category. To find out why, read our case study below. Unlocking the key to… Read more Opening the doors to digital is helping Dorset residents live in more energy efficient homes
For residents in Dorset, Blandford Library is more than just a place to loan books. For many, Blandford library is a community hub and a place to connect. In 2021 the library was upgraded to a gigabit-capable network, making buffering screens a thing of the past. Before gigabit broadband systems in the library were slow,… Read more Connecting libraries to next generation broadband benefits the whole community
Digital Dorset has received more national recognition after being shortlisted in the prestigious Connected Britain Awards in the Smart Place category. From helping thousands of Dorset’s digitally excluded residents get online to ground-breaking innovation projects, our work is fast becoming a blueprint for rural areas of the UK and beyond. Here’s how Dorset Council, and… Read more Digital Dorset shortlisted in national awards
In November 2020, as lockdown pressures continued to bear hard on people, here at Digital Dorset we wanted to help some of the communities that were suffering the most – those with the poorest broadband. The Covid pandemic meant we were far more reliant on the internet for working, home schooling, accessing important services like… Read more From strangers to good neighbours – how poor broadband brought a community together
How do we channel the creativity we had when we were young into the workplace today? Our tenth Digital Network, the first for 2022 and our first ever hybrid session; invites you to explore that question and more. Helping us will be Dorset entrepreneur Steve Schofield who is leading the innovation team at a rapidly… Read more Classroom creativity to workplace innovation
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
We migrated our website to a new platform (Placecube) and asked ourselves the question: how can we make sure our website is just as good (if not better) on the new platform? The most obvious way was for us to do some user testing on our old site to find out: · how people search… Read more So you want to do remote user testing
We’re organising ten events in five locations across five days, involving almost 50 speakers and 100 participants and streaming them live over You Tube to an audience of hundreds, if not thousands, of people online. Why are we doing this? It’s complex, scary and – most bizarre of all – no-one has asked us to… Read more We’re not TV producers but… by Penny Syddall (Programme Manager for Skills and Adoption)
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
