Silver Surfers Day 2009
May 15th, 2009 | by Stuart Parker Published in Events, We share | 1 Comment
8 out of 10 older people in the UK still can’t access online services – they aren’t media literate. SSD09 gives us all the chance to change that.
Media literacy, in today’s digital age, is more important than ever. It can facilitate a more convenient, cheaper, community-rich lifestyle. Older people, who have so much to gain from the online world, are still largely missing out. SSDO9 will reach many thousands of older people in hundreds of locations around the UK and do something very tangible about redressing that imbalance.
Digital Unite (DU) is managing the seventh annual Silver Surfers’ Day Campaign. Devised in 2002 by DU, SSD is the biggest annual media literacy campaign aimed at older people. (http://digitalunite.com )
(taken from digitalunite.com)
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May 18th, 2009 at 5:04 pm (#)
some Silver surfers in this area can’t get broadband at all, so to celebrate silver surfers day 2009 we laid fibre to their houses and lit it. We took a video and another silver surfer put it on youtube. They now have broadband. Power to the people and especially silver surfers.
chris
http://www.wrayvillage.blogspot.com