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Thanks to all the marvelous Spring Online event holders up and down the land, we collectively ran just under 2,000 digital taster sessions for older people all over the UK last week. That’s another tremendous achievement for this eleven year old campaign, and especially at a time when many local and community groups are under pressure and cutting down on and sometimes sadly closing down...
Roll of drums, toots on flutes - it’s Digital Unite’s Spring Online week!
Since 2002 we’ve been running a campaign every spring to encourage older people who aren’t online to explore digital technology. Eleven years later it’s still going strong, and we’ve grown it from a day of activity – Silver Surfers’ Day – to a week of learning and digital...
We had an absolutely super time yesterday afternoon at the launch of the Digital Unite Academy in London where we also had a graduation ceremony for ten of our first Digital Champions. These are ten people who’ve successfully completed the Digital Champion ITQ, a level 2 City and Guilds qualification. It was a delight to meet them personally and sing their praises. Thanks also to all the folk...
Learn how to get your residents online and represent your residents' needs directly to suppliers!
Digital Unite is pleased to announce its next social housing forum will be in London on March 26, 2012 hosted at the Microsoft Offices in Victoria, London.
For housing providers, the forum is a really great opportunity to meet suppliers of a wide range of products...
Spring Online is a week long campaign, which will run from April 23rd – 27th, during which hundreds of people and organisations run digital taster sessions for local older people. Digital Unite supports those event holders, promotes the campaign through national and local media, provides event holder packs, the opportunity to win prizes – even balloons – so that Spring...
A very big welcome to the new look Digital Unite website, which we have been working on for quite a while and which I am thrilled we have now launched. I hope it tells you more forcefully, more thoroughly and more attractively what it is we actually do and believe in at DU.
We’ve been promoting digital inclusion and giving people digital skills – and in particular older people – since...

