26th April 2012 DIEGO Seminar

Develoment of a Develoment of a Limerick Digital Limerick Digital

Inclusion StrategyInclusion Strategy

Develoment of a Develoment of a Limerick Digital Limerick Digital

Inclusion StrategyInclusion StrategyTransforming lives through Transforming lives through technology education and technology education and

communitiescommunities

Who we are?• Limerick Community Connect• 2001 PAUL Partnership and VEC Limerick City Community ICT Steering Group• Initiatives Family IT 2004-2006• E-Information and Learning Initiative 2006-2007• Commissioned research 2008• Input to Regeneration Master Plan• Techfast 2008• Limerick eInclusion 2009

– SimpleIT– Digital Upskilling

• Formation of Limerick Community Connect and a Strategic Group• Dell Winning Culture Initiative 2011• Community sites www.limerickcommunities.ie • 2012 Limerick Digital Strategy widening of the focus of a digital inclusion

agenda

Why should you care? Why we can’t fail

• Avoid the creation of a Digital underclass

• Avoid Limerick becoming a less attractive city for “everything”

• Keep ahead in a changing world

• Must bring hope to the excluded disadvantaged Youth, Unemployed, Elderly

Opportunity for Limerick

A digital strategy• Continue leading in the area of

digital inclusion• To take greater advantage of the

resources within the city• A chance for all partners to work

together for there own and common good

Digital Inclusion means different things to different people

• Closing the divide

• Getting basic ICT skills

• Technology accessible for disabled and elderly

• Preventing economic exclusion

• Digital technology to tackle social exclusion

• Improve the lives and life chances of any citizen

Context• Changing economic circumstances

– Less money

• Large scale restructuring of public services

• Rapid changes in digital technologies accessibility, cost, social media, digital based services

A Changed Mindset

Draft e-inclusion strategy

• Our Goal:To make Limerick Ireland’s leading digitally inclusive city - with engaged citizens, resourced communities, digitally skilled students and workforce, targeted service provision and opportunities for everyone to learn and share their knowledge.

Principles Network readiness:

• Community focus

• Partnership

• Collaboration

• Sharing

A word on Technology

Technology is getting there

Digital infrastructure

Convergence of devices Convergence of devices

Tipping Point

Digital –means malleable :– clay to a Potter!

Focus of our Inclusion

• Awareness

• Learning

• Partnership

Awareness• Knowledge through awareness

– Information Access– Responsibility

– What’s possible Examples: – www.cdi.org.br – www.esd.org.uk/solutions4inclusion

Learning

• Journey to participation We are all only at the beginning!

Learning Path Ways

Partnership

Strenghts of Limerick• Spirit of Limerick• Educational excellence• Vibrant community ICT

programmes and delivery expertise

• Infrastructure

Developed by the LCC e-inclusion Strategic Group

Our Strategic Framework

Engaged Citizens & CommunitiesAWARENESS

PARTICIPATION

Digital Literacy's, Skills &

Options

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Pilot Projects

• To continue outreach digital competence programme at

community level

• Royal Digital Media Hub VEC

• Coordination of digital learning progression. LIT, MI, UL, VEC

• Limerick Inclusion Expo

Pilot Projects

• Volunteer Buddy System (Inter-generational support) 3rd level / Business

• Cloud based Infrastructure City Council /Shannon Broadband/ BT

• Open Innovation Digital Platform for the unemployed in Limerick

• EU pilot site of choice for Inclusion projects

Basic Resources

• e-facilitator• Monitor needs and demands• To market what’s possible (evangelist) • Coordinate the partners

Digital Inclusion Resource CentreOne full time facilitator

• Network of community facilitators/ Champions within partners

Partners: Enabling the resources

of Limerick

• Community groups• Limerick City Council• Education LIT, MIC, UL, VEC • Shannon Development• Business• EU Digital Agenda for Europe

Open and shared vision

Impact• Limerick open for digital engagement and business

• Social • e-health• E-gov• e-education• What we want?• Economic• 20% only on line Jobs • Cheap goods • Information• digital skills shortages ••