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
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
It’s been a jam-packed few months for Digital Dorset since the beginning of April when we last told you what we’d been doing. ‘Digital Dorset’ reflects what we do in the county to help make people’s lives easier through the use of technology and information or data. It’s about delivering great services that are designed… Read more Digital Dorset update – April to June 2021
Here at Digital Dorset we are always working hard to show why moving to a digital way of living and working can actually make things easier, and sometimes cheaper, for our residents. In this blog, Lisa Trickey, service manager for digital strategy and design, talks about the services people can access online and how we… Read more How digital is making life easier for Dorset residents
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
After more than a year where most people have worked from home it looks like the working landscape has changed for good. While some people begin the return to the office others are deciding that working from home is here to stay. There will also be many people hoping to combine both. And, of course,… Read more Riding the technical highway: Hybrid working in action
