by Sarah Burke | Mar 8, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence, Jobs
This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Embrace Equity’, is being celebrated by The United Nations as ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. It aims to draw attention to the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social...
by Claire Wicher | Mar 2, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Economy
Claire Wicher is Head of Education and Skills at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. MadLab is running a FREE beginners’ coding course this spring, starting on 29th March and running for five weeks. Aimed at Stockport residents aged...
by Renuka Parmar and Craig Lawson | Jan 31, 2023 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital Stockport
Having a device, whether a laptop, tablet or phone, is just part of a solution for people who are digitally excluded. It’s also about having internet access. With the cost-of-living crisis, many people are facing tough choices, and internet access is one of the things...
by Clara Jones | Dec 15, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Stockport’s warm spaces provide welcoming and friendly environments for anyone to drop in and warm up this winter. They will be open until March 2023, and many offer free Wi-Fi and free hot food and drink without any pressure to buy something. Some also offer free...
by Tanya King | Nov 25, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Tanya King is Head of Customer Engagement and Inclusion at Stockport Homes Group, one of the core partners of the DigiKnow Alliance. Imagine for a minute that one in four people you know are not online. No social media, no email, no searching for bus times, no...
by Cllr Malcolm Allan | Nov 18, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Councillor Malcolm Allan is Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources at Stockport Council I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks seeing the sort of things the council and community groups together are doing in Stockport, as far as what we call ‘digital’ is...
