Digital Inclusion Wales

Play – a motivating word alone!  At the recent Volunteering in a Digital Age Conference in September 2012, a word that was often used was ‘Play’. I couldn’t agree more with such a word – the chance to use and discover all the different [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 4 months ago • View comments

So that time of year is fast approaching; what was once a time to sit down and write a letter to Santa, is now an online interaction in which you post a message and wait for Santa to post back (http://www.dearsanta.com) How times have changed and how this [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 5 months ago • View comments

Summer of Sports What better topic for my latest blog?! It has been a few months since I last blogged on the explosion of Social Network Status updates, and a thought has since occurred. I couldn’t help but notice the large spike in Sport related sta [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 8 months ago • View comments

How often do you update your social network status?  On 23 August 2011 the Digital Inclusion Wales Stakeholders’ Forum was born. At the time, it was a leap into the partially unknown for the Digital Inclusion Unit, but through working with Commun [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 13 months ago • View comments

Social Networking… So Christmas has come and gone already! 2012 has started and I am pleased to say I achieved my challenge of using Google+! As with most social networks the process of registering was easy, a few straight forward questions and it was [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 15 months ago • 0 Comment(s)

Social Networking… It has been four months since the launch of the ‘Digital Inclusion Wales Stakeholders’ Forum’ and I am thinking more about how to take the site forward as the Christmas period draws closer. For some, this may seem the wrong way [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 17 months ago • View comments

Normal Service is Resumed… Firstly, an apology. I have been on the road almost constantly since my last blog, and have hardly been in our Merthyr office. Consequently, I have had little time to sit down and write this one. (Though the sort of activity [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 19 months ago • View comments

This is Your Forum… In the December 2010 Digital Inclusion conference, in Swansea, there was a discussion about the setting up of a Stakeholders’ Forum and what format it should take. It was suggested, and agreed, that the best way forward would be t [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 20 months ago • View comments

A Day in the Life Recently, I had three meetings in 24 hours which give an indication of some of my work, and that of the Digital Inclusion Unit of the Welsh Government. On 26 August, I met colleagues from Post Office Ltd to consider the relationship [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 20 months ago • View comments

Volunteering – a task for all of us? Last week, I received a request from a colleague asking me where his son, who is doing his A levels, could undertake volunteering work, mentoring people to help them get online.  Fortuitously, I had been involv [...]

Posted by Stephen Thomas • 20 months ago • View comments