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Stuart has written up his thoughts on the session on ‘digital mentors’: “just a few attributes there and it gets me thinking where are the people with these attributes right now? They’re out there doing the work already! Independently in many cases (and often for free). I see the ’surgeons’ from the social media surgeries who don’t have the weight of targets and crap access / tools and red tape to b

At the unconference I led a session on “defining digital inclusion” — born out of a long held worry that different people and organisations don’t quite mean the same thing when they talk about digital inclusion. I talked about how I felt that the definition needed to be platform agnostic, and have room being able to find out how to do something rather than explicitly having a particular skillset. We

Led by Alison V Smith. Wss Digital Inclusion Unconference – Accessibility by Bounder on Mixcloud

Wss Digital Inclusion Unconf – Open Source by Bounder on Mixcloud

Audio from a session on working to digitally include young people — led by Carl Plant, and first, Saul Letourneau: Wss Digital Inclusion Unconf – Young People by Bounder on Mixcloud

Antonio Roberts on his unconference: “Although there are government plans afoot to get more people online in some way (access to TV, PC or mobile phone Internet access) does that mean someone is digitally included? Is it measured by the amount of comments people leave on blogs or if they even have a blog or Internet presence? What does digital mean anyway? Most of the things in my kitchen are in some way digita

Getting to the Unconference The venue is BVSC in Birmingham City Centre, 5 minutes walk from New Street and Moor Street stations, as well as the new Digbeth Coach Station. Being a Saturday there is some free on-street parking nearby, although there are plenty of paid car parks nearby. BVSC has a small number of free spaces for disabled people visiting by car, these need to be booked in advance. Maps and more details

We’ve happy to announce the details of the Digital Inclusion Unconference. It’ll be held at the BVSC in Birmingham city centre on Saturday 23rd January 2010, (9am – 5pm). The event is free, thanks to our sponsors — head over to Eventbrite to sign up. Join We Share Stuff and other people working with those that don’t or can’t take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Internet for