UK online centres help address the growing digital divide by providing internet access and training to disadvantaged groups. Over 500,000 socially excluded people have gotten online through UK online centres between 2010 and 2011. The centres are run by 3,800 community partners and located in places like libraries, job centres, and community centres. They provide important benefits like helping people communicate more and feel more connected to their communities. If more digitally excluded people got online, it could save the UK government £900 million per year.
A brief update on the Digital Participation programme at SCVO. Presented at the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Digital Participation, April 2014.
Helen milner our digital future nov 2011Helen Milner
How can the UK truly create a digital future for our society? We need to work in partnership to help everybody reap the opportunities of a digital society
A brief introduction to the Milo database and reporting platform that supports Scotland's local third sector. Presented at the Intermediaries Network, May 2014.
A brief update on the Digital Participation programme at SCVO. Presented at the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Digital Participation, April 2014.
Helen milner our digital future nov 2011Helen Milner
How can the UK truly create a digital future for our society? We need to work in partnership to help everybody reap the opportunities of a digital society
A brief introduction to the Milo database and reporting platform that supports Scotland's local third sector. Presented at the Intermediaries Network, May 2014.
Up to date view of who needs to get online, why and how we can make the Uk the most digitally connected in world. Presentation at the National Media Museum as part of the visioning for the new internet gallery to open in early 2012.
Presentation to Regionalmedien Austria (RMA) an Austrian media company. RMA distributes free (advertiser-funded) newspapers throughout Austria that include local, regional and national content, reaching almost 50% market saturation. (Wikipedia)
This event was held at The Guardian offices in London on the 4th April 2017 to announce the shortlisted finalists of the PPMA Excellence in People Management Awards 2017.
Get Ready Get Online - digital inclusion and welfare reformHelen Milner
My talk at the NHF Conference on 14th February 2013 in London. Discussing the urgency of helping people to use the internet, particularly with a view to the new Welfare Reform. Interesting for all digital inclusion and/or housing people.
Driving social change with digital inclusion: Why & How (June 2013)Helen Milner
Driving social inclusion through digital inclusion. Some stats about why this is relevant and some ideas of how to do it. Contains the single simple solution to digital exclusion.
Approximately half of everyone who is offline lives in social housing, and housing providers can do even more to help their residents to learn how to use the internet. Can we get 1m residents online quickly? Yes we can.
Up to date view of who needs to get online, why and how we can make the Uk the most digitally connected in world. Presentation at the National Media Museum as part of the visioning for the new internet gallery to open in early 2012.
Presentation to Regionalmedien Austria (RMA) an Austrian media company. RMA distributes free (advertiser-funded) newspapers throughout Austria that include local, regional and national content, reaching almost 50% market saturation. (Wikipedia)
This event was held at The Guardian offices in London on the 4th April 2017 to announce the shortlisted finalists of the PPMA Excellence in People Management Awards 2017.
Get Ready Get Online - digital inclusion and welfare reformHelen Milner
My talk at the NHF Conference on 14th February 2013 in London. Discussing the urgency of helping people to use the internet, particularly with a view to the new Welfare Reform. Interesting for all digital inclusion and/or housing people.
Driving social change with digital inclusion: Why & How (June 2013)Helen Milner
Driving social inclusion through digital inclusion. Some stats about why this is relevant and some ideas of how to do it. Contains the single simple solution to digital exclusion.
Approximately half of everyone who is offline lives in social housing, and housing providers can do even more to help their residents to learn how to use the internet. Can we get 1m residents online quickly? Yes we can.
An overview of digital participation in Scotland, the SCVO digital participation programme and Scotland's digital participation charter. Presented at the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland, June 2014.
Digital Participation: Building a digital Scotland where everyone’s includedChris Yiu
The latest on digital participation in Scotland, basic online skills for people and organisations, and Scotland's digital participation charter. Presented at Crossover Edinburgh, June 2014.
How can you use the internet to tell your stories and explain the impact your organisation is having? This is from a one-hour a workshop I am delivering at the 2010 AGM of Community First East Hampshire. It includes an overview of why the internet is relevant to all communications as well as more detailed look at how to use video and online activity to support fundraising and promotional campaigns.
Introduction to hyper-local media, part two: Top 10 trendsDamian Radcliffe
12" pack broken into three, due to file size. This is part two, which looks at the Top Ten trends I have identified for the sector. Comments, feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
Presentations by Tinder Foundation's Caroline Wilson about what we do and the different aspects of the UK online centres network. This is from the Social Housing and Digital Inclusion: People not Technology event in London on April 14 2015.
Queensland Speaking Tour: Learnings from the UKHelen Milner
Slides from speaking tour of Queensland in partnership with the Queensland Government. Digital exclusion denies people access to services, communication, savings, and inclusion in today's society. Tinder Foundation has supported almost 2 million people to cross the digital divide. These slides are a collection of various slides presented at a number of different speeches - so it's not one presentation, it's many.
The digital divide and civic tech (TICTec 2016, Helen Milner)Helen Milner
Civic tech can't make the impact it needs to if those working in the sector don't understand that more than half of the world's population doesn't use the internet. Blending my knowledge of digital exclusion, digital inclusion and the digital divide, and my time on the Speaker's Commission for Digital Democracy, this speech asks some difficult questions about how we can work in partnership to make real impact for the people who need better democracies and better lives.
Australia: Leave Nobody Behind: speaking tour oct nov 2015Helen Milner
In Oct and November 2015 I spend 5 days speaking in 4 Australian cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane) and gave 7 speeches. I helped launched the Australian National Year of Digital Inclusion. This slide deck brings together the best slides from the tour so that people can see them and enjoy them.
Digital inclusion, housing technology & innovation (July 2015)Helen Milner
With over 4m people who live in social housing also lacking the basic digital skills to live well in today's society, we really do need to work together to do something about it. Closing the digital divide will help people gain jobs, save money, and to feel more connected with family, friends and with their community. Tinder Foundation has over 5 years experience of working with the housing sector and this presentation pulls together key insight as well as examples of good practice.
Democracy & inclusion (copenhagen) may 2015 (helen milner)Helen Milner
Digital democracy is the new kind of digital exclusion. At Tinder Foundation we have helped over 1.3 million people to gain basic digital skills and to close a bit more of the digital divide. Invited to speak at this conference in Copenhagen to share global lessons in digital inclusion, digital democracy and helping civic society and Governments to empower more people to take part in their services.
“Digital democracy” helen milner digital leaders annual lecture 24 february 2015Helen Milner
My speech at the Digital Leaders Annual Lecture in February 2015 about Digital Democracy. Slides have notes of the full speech. This is about people and democracy more than technology. I talk about social media, the Arab Spring, the crowdsourced constitution in Iceland, and the Net Party in Argentina. I talk about the findings of the UK House of Common's Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy - as a Commissioner. Not radical but perhaps a very quiet and polite revolution.
Evaluation Findings from Digital Deal Challenge Fund - Social Housing & Digit...Helen Milner
The UK Government invested over £400,000 on 12 Digital Deal Challenge Fund projects to establish best practice and lessons for social/public housing providers looking to introduce digital inclusion programmes. Our ambition is to help 100% of the UK population to use the internet to benefit their lives; 9.5 million people don't have basic internet skills in the UK and around 4 million of these people live in social housing. This presentation was first done for the Social Digital Research Symposium in London 22nd October 2014
Digital Inclusion in the Age of Mobile (Socitm May 2014)Helen Milner
Presentation focused on digital inclusion in the age of mobile. Containing some recent stats on mobile. A great infographic on the digital divide. Information about how to help people to use online public services. Call to action for all Councils to start making the business case for digital inclusion and not to wait. All free to download to accelerate the pace of change for action on digital inclusion.
Measuring the impact of digital inclusion at scale (SHLB May 2014)Helen Milner
My presentation at SHLB May 2014, describing the evaluation metrics and methodologies we use at TInder Foundation and UK online centres. Ranging from: large scale data collection from our MOOC Learn My Way; online and telephone surveys (in the field 52 weeks a year); and deep dive evaluation and volumetrics. Using these three methodologies we've proven that we've saved the UK Government at least £232.4m (more than $1bn) in the past three years - proving digital inclusion does help the bottom line for countries struggling with recession.
Business Case for Digital Inclusion & Social Housing 8 Feb 2014Helen Milner
Demonstrating the issues of the digital divide, and demonstrating how social & public housing can help to close this divide. Fact, stats, and some clear solutions on how to close the digital gap. Showing the massive impact of putting services online as well as making sure customers and citizens can use them through local action & elearning/online learning or MOOCs. World class solutions for a hyper local problem.
Getting Tenants Online: Digital Inclusion & Social HousingHelen Milner
Many people who live in social housing (public housing) are on low income or older making them much more likely to lack basic online skills. They are also likely to benefit from online savings, and will need to interact with Government online too. I've been working with Housing Associations for three years advising on how to help tenants to get those digital skills they need. Some information about the Digital Deal programme - £400,000 grants for social housing. And Stats and facts about Housing & Digital Inclusion.
Tackling Health Inequalities and Digital ExclusionHelen Milner
As more and more health information and health services go online it is important to focus on making sure people who suffer from health inequalities, and who are also digitally excluded, don't get left behind. With a £1m programme from NHS Englamd, we're at the start of a programme to join the dots.
Digital Inclusion - The Big Picture (4 December 2013)Helen Milner
My presentation at Digital Evolution Making Good Things Happen conference in St Paul's London. Tinder Foundation's conference on digital inclusion in the UK and working with hyperlocal partners who help socially and digitally excluded people to learn basic online skills.
Tinder foundation announcing our name changeHelen Milner
On 8th July we changed our name to Tinder Foundation (from Online Centres Foundation). People seem to love the new name but some people have asked me why did we change. Here's why.
Community E-Learning: Local + Technology + ScaleHelen Milner
Presentation about how to innovate when delivering community learning by using technology. Including reducing the digital divide. Speech on 12 March 2013
Digital engagement network nation: people or pipesHelen Milner
Presentation at "Broadband Britain - funding, killer apps, and digital engagement" 11 September. Should we invest in broadband infrastructure or in helping the socially excluded to use the net? Or both?
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Assuring Contact Center Experiences for Your Customers With ThousandEyes
Australian national digital inclusion summit 17 august 2011
1. Section Divider: Heading intro here. UK online centres: helping people benefit from the internet Helen Milner, 17 August 2011
2. In the UK: the divide between the online and the offline is deepening Percentage population use of the internet Source: ONS 2010
3. UK online centres users lives – before and after “ Does the internet improve lives?” Freshminds April, 2009 Communicate more Feel more connected to local community Feel less concerned about skills, work and health
4. If all UK digitally excluded adults got online and made one digital contact each month, this would save the UK Government £900 million per year PwC & Martha Lane Fox www.raceonline.org/research October 2009
5. Getting more people online Barriers remain the same in 2009 as in 2007 Freshminds & UK online centres: 2007 and 2009 Access: 38% Skills & Confidence: 20% Motivation: 34%