Our Digital Planet in Bristol – Dispelling some Digital Inclusion Myths It’s now just over a week since I completed my first two week stint as Internet Station Manager on Nominet Trust‘s Our Digital Planet Exhibition. We were in Bristol for this session. Lloyd Davis will be taking the show on to Cardiff this week, before I take the helm again for Liverpool and Glasgow. It’s been a really interesting two weeks, and has been especially useful in giving me some additional insight into the barriers faced by digitally excluded people. As I’ve documented before, a fair few of the people who came into the station, but by no means all, were looking to take their first plunges into the internet, but many had also been some way along the journey but had encountered a problem that prevented them from taking their interest further.
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Nesta Innovation in Giving Care4Care was a membership organisation where members spent a few hours a week supporting an older person in their local community – in return building up their own ‘care pension’. The idea was to provide support for older people through a system of exchange: members would support an older person now in return for being supported later in life. Time spent helping an older person earned an equivalent time credit (calculated in 15 minute segments). So for example, a member spending 45 minutes making breakfast for their neighbour would earn a credit of 45 minutes which would be recorded for future use; members in effect built up a ‘care pension’ for their own old age. Care4Care was a collaboration between Professor Heinz Wolff, The Young Foundation and Age UK, Isle of Wight.
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