Thuis scrapbook describes the Digital Activist Inclusion Network project. It contains links to all our films, blogs, website and community learning environment.

1. A scrapbook of our journey
tackling technology
together

2. In the East Midlands
region of the UK,
DAIN
recruited and trained
over 100 unemployed
individuals to help
over 1000 people in
their local
communities.

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• using ets
• getting an email address skype
• choosing a service provider
• shopping online
• dating online
•uploading photos
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4. Sessions in l
ibraries,
community c
entres,
markets, mus
eums,
shopping arc
ades
and pubs

5. Our loca
tions

6. Digital act
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Getting
certificates at
the end of the
training course

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and as an
offline
workbook.

8. We used
social media
all through the
project
Digital activists
were involved
in every aspect,
including the
steering group.

9. Loca
l and
natio
nal
camp
aigns
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10. NIACE led
Preparing for estonia – our
before the volcano! transnatio
nal work
Delayed – but
eventually
filming in Tallin
Hard at work blogging
The team in Berlin in Brussels!

11. Digital activists blogged
wrote and produced
newsletters .......
made
films

12. ..... and films
Launch movie were made
about the
project.
What we did
to 2010
Berlin
Brussels
Inspirin
g
Learnin
European Year of Award g
Winne
Volunteering good ALW rs
practice movie 2012

13. In March 2012, we
celebrated the end of
DAIN phase 1.
Our Digital Activist award winners

14. I want to deal with
computers more with This kind of help is not
understanding than with available anywhere else
fear
Really fired my enthusiasm
What people said to get stuck in – given me
about DAIN the confidence to go to the
library and have a go myself
Very very good tasters.
1 to 1 really helps.
and our satisfac
tio n ratings!

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I learned lots of new skills , meeting different people,
being given a free laptop to use in the community, travel
expenses paid, and being given a chance to go to
Estonia ..travel expenses and support through guidance and
counselling helped me stay on the project.

16. and the evaluators saidWe have been delighted to meet many
DAs and hear of some inspirational
work. Their personal progress,
commitment and ingenuity are
impressive. The open and reflective
way in which DAs have shared their
thoughts on DAIN and what it has
meant to them has been insightful.
We have never seen a project where the satisfaction rating
in the community has been universally so high. There is a
real need for a continued presence and to find new ways to
reach the difficult target of the most excluded. DAs have
worked on undeterred by external circumstances such as the
unforeseen economic climate and it has been rewarding to
see how national initiatives such as Race on Line have
adopted methods and training piloted by DAIN.
Other European organisations have been inspired by DAIN
successes and are keen to emulate materials and idea.
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18. The DAIN project was led by the Workers’ Educational Association East Midlands
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