The Festival of the Future is back, and we need your help! We want new ideas and experiences for this year’s Festival of the Future because lots of different people really make creativity shine. We’d like to hear your thoughts at sessions we are holding online on: 5 May 3-4pm or 11 May 2-3pm You don’t need… Read more Can you help with this year’s showcase event for Dorset?
Am I Creative? by Sam McLaren, service improvement analyst One of the aims of becoming a Digital Council set out in the Digital Dorset Vision is to become more innovative and creative. So, what better way to showcase this than to take part in a week revolving around celebrating and encouraging creativity and innovation! Last… Read more Am I Creative?
Project manager Gary Littledyke is helping spearhead an innovative project to test how 5G can boost Dorset’s rural economy while making it a safer place for visitors to enjoy. Led by Dorset Council, the 5G RuralDorset project is run in partnership with major players in the technological industries. Here Gary shines a light on how… Read more Dorset Council – the final piece in Gary’s jigsaw
Sam McLaren started at the council at the very tender of age of 19. In a short five years his career has continued to progress and last year he was runner-up in the Young Digital Leader category in the national Digital Leaders 100 awards. Here Sam’s shares his career journey (so far) with #DigitalDorset I’m… Read more From apprentice to young digital leader
Lockdown has presented many challenges for so many people. For most of us, digital was a great help – we could stay connected online with loved ones, work and school from home and do our shopping and stay in touch with vital public services virtually. But what about the offline community? How could they be… Read more When Christmas came early
Former teacher, Tim Robertson went from teaching in schools to two decades with the life-saving charity the RNLI, when he was made redundant just prior to the Covid pandemic striking. In these most challenging of times, Tim was handed a life buoy and a fantastic career opportunity when he was appointed to help spearhead Dorset… Read more Dorset Council – a life-saving career move for Tim
After surviving two recessions, Dorset businessman Gordon Fong reflects how the global Covid-pandemic has provided the biggest challenge yet in his 20-year career. In this blog Gordon shares his ideas on how digital can not only help with recovery, but also help put Dorset back on the map. Feast your eyes on his ideas. The… Read more Food for thought – how digital could provide a banquet of opportunities for Dorset businesses
Dorset Council has just celebrated its second birthday. Over the past year, we’ve demonstrated our flexibility and ability to achieve great things in times of enormous challenge. Now there’s a chance to join us as we extend our transformation capability even further by recruiting to 15 new roles. Here’s some of what we’ve been doing.… Read more Exciting times for Dorset Council – and we’re hiring
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?
When the first lockdown pulled down the shutters on all public-facing services on 23 March 2020 an urgent, and a digital, response was needed. It soon became clear that digital was going to the be solution for most people and services: Public meetings became Zoom meetings; family gatherings were replaced with Facetime; the clinically vulnerable… Read more Rising to the challenges of the Covid pandemic – how Dorset Council helped people get online
