by Adrian Davies | Oct 31, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Following the great work on the Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) project, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have now announced the exciting next steps to light up the fibre with a state-of-the-art, high-performance data network – the GM One Network. In...
by Tom Ward | Oct 28, 2022 | Architecture, Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Smart places
Background Twenty years ago, most commercial and residential users accessed the internet over the UK’s ageing network of copper wire-based telephone circuits. Due to the technology involved, copper circuits could only work at slow or very slow speeds...
by Chris Bennett | Oct 20, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
We are Community Computers, a not-for-profit project delivered by local charity Renewal North West, and we exist to tackle digital exclusion, unemployment and e-waste through repairing and refurbishing donated tech. We’re working with Stockport Council and are part of...
by Helen Johnson | Oct 13, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Did you know something that we do well in Stockport is encouraging and helping people to ‘go digital’? In a world where it seems you need to download an app to do anything or remember a password for the littlest thing, right on your doorstep, there are so...
by Clara Jones | Sep 26, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Next month is Digitober across Greater Manchester, a month-long focus on digital, which includes the Get Online Week campaign to help people improve their digital skills. In this blog, Clara Jones, Head of Digital Inclusion at Starting Point Community Learning...
by Lindsey Yates | Aug 18, 2022 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Stockport
Welcome to the latest blog for our Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government/ Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (MHCLG/DLUHC) sponsored Family Context project. This is an update on the project’s progress since the last blog in...
