Internet Habit for Nuns in Sicily
A group of Cistercian nuns of the 13th-century Santo Spirito convent in Agrigento are utilizing the Internet as a way of communicating with the wider public.
Parenting goes online
Forget parent and teacher evenings or even mothers coffee mornings. Parents are going online for help with bringing up their children.
National Digital Inclusion Conference 2007
Derek Wyatt and John Fisher, trustee and chief executive of Citizens Online respectively, will be contributing to the National Digital Inclusion Conference on 24th April 2007
SustainIT eWell-Being award winners announced
The eWell-Being Awards are awarded to local authorities, businesses, third sector organisations and academic institutions whose projects use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the community. The awards, which are now in their fifth year, are promoted by Sustain IT an initiative of charity UK CEED.
Sunderland announced as Digital Challenge winner
As the winner of the Communities and Local Government’s Digital Challenge competition, Sunderland City Council will receive £3 million to deliver its plans for a digitally enabled community, which will benefit some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded people in the area.
How can we use ICT to raise youth aspiration? Call for case studies and comment
Citizens Online are partnering with the E-Learning Foundation and Media@LSE to explore how innovative ICT can be used to inspire disadvantaged young people to improve their life chances by engaging more readily with education and society.
Deaf people to use video mobiles to chat with friends using sign language.
US researchers have made video compression tools which make it possible to send live pictures of people signing across low bandwidth mobile networks.