Digitise the Nation – A nationwide digitial inclusion training roadshow
You may have read about it or even seen the bright orange, mobile training unit in your area but for those of you who haven’t, Digitise the Nation – A nationwide digital inclusion campaign is back and on the road!
The IIA have launched “Digitise the Nation” for 2012. The bright orange, mobile training unit has been taking to the road ensuring that all members of society have training and access to all the benefits that being online brings. This stand-out orange training unit will be visiting towns throughout Ireland over the coming twelve months and the IIA welcome everyone to get on board to get online.
A unique aspect of the Digitise the Nation Campaign is the number of sponsors involved and the breadth of industry collaboration. Microsoft, Independent.ie, Bonkers.ie and RaboDirect are coming together in a very hands-on way to support delivery of this training. No other digital inclusion initiative has enrolled such a range of supporters and the IIA is delighted to be the fulcrum for such a gathering.
The mobile nature of this Digitise the Nation training means that anyone from anywhere is invited to contact us via our www.digitisethenation.ie website to find training dates and locations as well as request training for their own locality.
Digitise the Nation has been designed to deliver the following;
- How to get started on email and internet calls to stay in touch with family and friends
- How to use the internet to find value and save money
- Using the internet to find jobs, news, information
- Building confidence and feeling included
Let’s get digital, digital
Are you noticing a song-y theme in my posts today? This is just a quick post to point you in the direction of Digitise the Nation, a week-long awareness campaign promoted by the IIA but run by you!
Here in the Irish Internet Association we believe being online and confident about what you are doing is a key step to personal and professional growth. We developed Digitise the Nation to bridge the gap between the digital natives and, well, the digital tourists.
So pop on over to Digitise the Nation to find out what it’s all about and how you can get involved.
The 51M Recreates Her Historic Voyage 50 Years On
The Heritage Boat Association are out in force this week and I wanted to share with you a little bit of what they’re up to.
Fifty years after Canal Boat 51M carried the last commercial cargo from Dublin outbound to Limerick along the Grand Canal and River Shannon, the Heritage Boat Association (HBA) will re-create her historic voyage.
Waterways Ireland, who own the boat, have agreed to allow the HBA to re-create the final farewell to commercial canal traffic in Ireland.
On her last journey 51M’s cargo consisted of a consignment of Guinness for the Limerick depot and at the time their departure caused quite a stir with both the public and the press. Press photos of the occasion still exist including an Irish Times photo and HBA intend to re-create the exact photograph which they expect will again capture the imagination of the public and the press. See the link to the Irish Times archive here.
While the skipper on that historic voyage has since passed away, they will have his sons on board as part of the current crew. A flotilla of other surviving Heritage Canal Boats will escort 51M westward towards the Shannon.
51M will depart from the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre beside the new theatre in Grand Canal Basin on Wednesday 19th May at 2pm, and after a short stop at Mespil Road continue her ‘leaving of Dublin’ on Thursday May 20th departing at 1.30pm.
Digitising the Nation with The Digital Hub
The Internet is affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives – how we learn, travel, and even watch TV. The Internet is also changing the way we do business. The aim of the Irish Internet Association, which is located in The Digital Hub, is to Connect, Inform and Promote and further to this we are currently hosting a national campaign called ‘Digitise the Nation’ for the Internet Industry in Ireland from 17th – 21st of May 2010. There are many events taking place during the week, under a number of themes including ‘Connectivity’ and ‘Entrepreneurship’.
Here Stephen Brennan, Director of Marketing and Strategy at the Digital Hub Development Agency talks about how consumers are using the Internet in increasingly large numbers to purchase products and services and how Irish business and entrepreneurs should take advantage of the Internet to invent and/or expand a business.
For further information on Digitise the Nation go to www.iia.ie/dtn
Competition Day 2: The Tools to Digitise the Nation
Congratulations to Aileen Roe who won yesterday’s Digitise the Nation Gadget-a-Day Competition. We will have prizes available all week, so make sure you enter each day.
Tuesday’s prize is a Microsoft Gaming Keyboard and Mouse and if you want to be the lucky winner, go to the Digitise the Nation Competition Page and answer the simple question. Today’s winner will be announced tomorrow, just in time for Competition Day Three.
Competition: The Tools to Digitise the Nation
In order to help you Digitise the Nation, Microsoft are handing you the tools you need to do it. Each day of the Digitise the Nation week, the IIA and Silicon Republic will have a new prize to giveaway. All you have to do is answer the question to be in with a chance to win.
Monday’s prize is a Microsoft Gaming Keyboard and Mouse and if you want to be the lucky winner, go to the Digitise the Nation Competition Page and answer the simple question. Today’s winner will be announced tomorrow, just in time for Competition Day Two.
Digitise the Nation with BlackrockVillage.ie and StreamMuseum
BlackrockVillage.ie, DundalkStreaming.com and The County Museum, Dundalk have announced details of a fresh approach to Museums in Ireland. Starting last month and over the course of seven weeks one hour show will feature and discuss aspects of life and work in Dundalk during the 20th century. The shows will be focus in the main on what life was like to work in many of the industries of the area including brewing, , shoe manufacture and tobacco; other areas of life at the time will be discussed including the role and nature of education and entertainment.
Hosted by Harry Lee, the show will feature guests with first hand experience of working in these industries and will provide an entertaining and informative glance at life in the 20th Century. According to Harry “I believe that internet radio is the future and that this is a great way of making history interesting and relevant to a new generation. We’re hoping to generate an atmosphere of a fireside conversation, making it an enjoyable experience for our guests and, of course, our listeners.”
The programme will be designed to assist schools with respect to local history studies with the preparation of a specialised worksheet dealing with each theme over the course of the broadcasts. These worksheets will feature photographs of the activity being discussed and will provide a unique insight into the dramatic changes in life here over the course of a lifetime. These workbooks will be available to download from the Museum’s website.
The project’s technical adviser, Jason McGee, is looking forward to Digitising the Nation on Monday 17th May with a live internet radio stream from The County Musem, at 1.30pm, looking at Tobacco and Cigarette Manufacture as part of the Museum’s exhibits.
“This is an innovative technology that hasn’t been used before. The younger generations are well used to using computers to find information so why not use the internet to provide a history lesson?”
More information about the content and the project may be had by contacting Brian Walsh at 042 9327056, or by checking out www.dundalkstreaming.com.
Digitising the Nation with Kavaleer Animations
Kavaleer (award winning digital animation business based in Digital Hub) will be showing St. Audeons National School school students how digital art is created; sharing with the children how cartoons are made and inspiring the next generation of Brown Bag Productions and Oscar winning “Avatar” creators.
Date: Friday the 21st of May
Time: 3hours in the morning.
Class Content:
- An Introduction to Animation and the Animation process.
- Drawing Characters and looking at facial expressions.
- Using facial expressions to tell story.
- Drawing Storyboards
- Animating Workshop, using Freeware Programme ‘Pencil’
and
- Conclusions and possibilities for the children.
It’s going to be a wonderful and exciting day for everyone involved.
Digitise the Nation with OpenStreetMaps
Next Wednesday evening, 19th May from 6pm – 9pm, Irish users of OpenStreetMap will be holding an information evening and mapping party in The Bleeding Horse on Camden St. in Dublin.
The aim of the evening will be to introduce the general public to the OpenStreetMap project which is building a completely ‘free’ map of the world, a map which is built by the public for the public. Huge progress has been made on the map in Ireland over the last 3 years, but we are always interested in attracting new people and spreading the word.
We will also conduct a ‘mapping party’ where we will walk around the Camden St. area with attendees. We will equip them with GPS units, GPS equipped phones and paper maps and show them how to capture information as we walk around the area. People will be recording everything from streetnames, points of interest, cycle lanes or whatever each individual is interested in. After the walk we will return to the pub and show attendees how to load the data they gathered onto the map, and maybe have a pint or two.
There is a lot of online information about the OpenStreetMap project, a good starting point is www.openstreetmap.ie. For further information, contact richard@geographic.ie.
For information on other Digitise the Nation Events, go to www.iia.ie/dtn.
Digitise the Nation Schedule of Events
DIGITISE THE NATION officially launches on Monday 17th, 8am at the NCI with the “Ditch Your Server” event brought to you by LUCEY and MICROSOFT. The IIA will be there and we hope you will be too!
It’s going to be a landmark week for the industry, bringing everyone together and anchored by our annual conference Vision 2020, on May 20th.
The full calendar of events is as follows:
Monday 17th May – Business Productivity
8am – 9.30am Lucey and Microsoft – “Ditch Your Servers”
Venue: Kelly Theatre, National College of Ireland
Officially launching the IIA Digitise the Nation Week on Monday Morning at 8am, Lucey and Microsoft want to show you how to get rid of your servers and run your business online This breakfast briefing is designed to give businesses of all sizes a practical overview on how to move away from having servers in the office and managing their business in a hosted environment. What’s possible and what’s not, what’s expensive and what’s simple to deploy. Click here for more details.
2pm – 5.30pm Cipherion Translations Seminar
Venue: Nutgrove Enterprise Park, Nutgrove Way, Dublin 14
Top Tips to showcasing your business to over 200m customers in Continental Europe. With more than 200 million customers located in France, Germany, Spain and Italy, more and more Irish organisations are looking to target these markets directly. A key factor to successfully communicate with these audiences is a translated website that effectively communicates your product and service audience. As part of the Digitise the Nation Week, learn about the steps you should take to translate and localise your website for these markets at a free seminar and clinic. Click here for more details.
1.30pm – 2.30pm StreamMuseum
Venue: Online Web Stream at DundalkStreaming.com
“This is an innovative technology that hasn’t been used before. The younger generations are well used to using computers to find information so why not use the internet to provide a history lesson?”
BlackrockVillage.ie, DundalkStreaming.com and The County Museum, Dundalk have announced details of a fresh approach to Museums in Ireland. Starting last month and over the course of seven weeks one hour show will feature and discuss aspects of life and work in Dundalk during the 20th century. Harry Lee and the project’s technical adviser, Jason McGee, are looking forward to Digitising the Nation on Monday 17th May with a live internet radio stream from The County Musem, at 1.30pm, looking at Tobacco and Cigarette Manufacture as part of the Museum’s exhibits. Click here for more details.
6pm to 6.45pm Webinar 7 Essential Steps For Marketing Your New Business Online
Venue: Online Webinar
Are you excited about setting up your new business, but uncertain how to successfully market your business online to attract more leads and increase sales? As part of the Digitise the Nation Week, Krishna De and Ann Donnelly, are delivering a FREE webinar for entrepreneurs! Click here for more details.
8pm – 9pm Webinar ‘Everybody Has A Mobile Phone’
Venue: Online Webinar
Peter Fry will be running a webinar on Using Mobile Marketing to Grow your Business at 8pm. He will be speaking about how companies can grow their business by using mobile messaging solutions and about mobile phones, past, present and future. This will include what is happening presently around the world from airline boarding cards on mobile to payment systems currently being used from mobile. Click here for more details.
10am to 11am Dublin City Council and Age Action’s ‘Getting Started’ Computer and Mobile Phone Classes
Venue: Santry Community Resource Centre Click here for more details.
Tuesday 18th May – Connectivity
10am-12pm, 2-4pm and 7-9pm Drimnagh Social Media Surgeries
Venue: St John Bosco Youth Centre
Drimnagh will be holding three open and informal Social Media Surgeries from 10am-12pm, 2-4pm and 7-9pm. The venue for this event is at St John Bosco youth centre on Davitt Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12. The event is free of charge and open to anyone who wants to learn more about any of the social media tools. Further details are available from DrimnaghIsGood.com. Click here for more details.
10am to 11am Dublin City Council and Age Action’s ‘Getting Started’ Computer and Mobile Phone Classes
Venue: Woodstock Court, Ranelagh. Click here for more details.
Wednesday 19th May – Entrepreneurship
2.00pm to 7.00pm A&A Computing Internet Day
Venue: Walkinstown Library, Percy French Road, Dublin 12.
There will be an Internet Day in Walkinstown Library, where A&A Computing will offer free demonstrations and hands-on experience in Skype, emailing and other online activities. Sessions will run every hour from 2.00pm to 7.00pm and all are welcome. Click here for more details.
6pm – 9pm Open Street Maps ‘Mapping Party’
Venue: The Bleeding Horse, Camden St., Dublin
From 6pm – 9pm, Irish users of OpenStreetMap will be holding an information evening and mapping party in The Bleeding Horse on Camden St., where members of the public learn about the OSM project and can dip their toes into the world of creating and editing the open-source data that underlies this large-scale project. Quite literally the public can learn how to ‘Digitise the Nation’ by adding in roads, paths, buildings, addresses and anything else that is of interest to them. Click here for more details.
10am-5pm Town.ie Open Day
Venue: 7 Tara Court, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
Town.ie is set up to provide an affordable web platform to all Irish indigenous businesses placing them competitively in the market place currently dominated by businesses with large budgets. On Wednesday the 19th of May 2010, the Town.ie team would like to invite you to an open day at their premises in 7 Tara Court, Letterkenny, Co Donegal from 10am – 5pm to take a look at what we do and for our staff members to answer any questions you may have. We look forward to seeing you there. Click here for more details.
10.30am to 11.30am Dublin City Council and Age Action’s ‘Getting Started’ Computer and Mobile Phone Classes
Venue: Mellowes Court, Finglas 10.30am to 11.30am.
Venue: Raheny Court, Raheny 3pm to 4pm. Click here for more details.
Thursday 20th May – Vision2020
8.30am – 5pm IIA Annual Conference
Venue: Crowne Plaza Dublin Northwood
The theme of the 2010 Conference is Vision 2020. This year’s IIA Conference will have a dual focus: what’s good in 2010 and what’s possible for 2020. It will critically assess the next wave of opportunities for the industry, as well as more immediate benefits for businesses in terms of improving their processes, productivity and profitability. Click here for more details.
7pm – late IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards
Venue: Crowne Plaza Dublin Northwood
The Awards, now in their 12th year, are unique as they are run and voted on by the internet industry in Ireland. 15 categories in total reflect the prolific business use of the Internet in Ireland, enabling businesses to grow despite these tough times. The Awards evening remains one of the best in Ireland – the perfect occasion to meet your Internet profession peers. Click here for more details.
11am to 12am Dublin City Council and Age Action’s ‘Getting Started’ Computer and Mobile Phone Classes
Venue: Rossaveal Court, Ballyfermot 11am to 12am. Click here for more details.
Friday 21st May – The Consumer and Social Media
Morning Digital Animation Workshop by Kavaleer
Venue: St. Audeons National School
Kavaleer (award winning digital animation business based in Digital Hub) will be showing primary school students how digital art is created; sharing with the children how cartoons are made and inspiring the next generation of Brown Bag Productions and Oscar winning “Avatar” creators. Click here for more details.
2pm – 6pm Connector Clinic Social Media Consultations
Venue: Harcourt Hotel, Harcourt Street
Conor Lynch will be giving free consultations on Friday 21st of May between 2 and 6pm. Friday is the designated Social Media Day and conor is the current Chair of the iia Social Media Working Group. He will be helping our guests to diagnose digital marketing problems and prescribe solutions based on the Connector 10C’s strategy. Regardless of the size of your business they will decide a tailor made action plan to suit your need based on your business and budget. Please email training [at] connector.ie to make your appointment. Click here for more details.
6pm – 6.45pm Facebook Marketing
Venue: Online Webinar
So you have heard about Facebook and are perhaps thinking of starting to use Facebook to connect to more customers, attract more leads and make more profit in your business? Or, perhaps you’ve already set up a Facebook Page but are not sure it’s working effectively for you? Then you’ll not want to miss this FREE webinar which is being delivered as part of the Irish Internet Association’s ‘Digitise the Nation’ week. Krishna De will be covering the 7 most common mistakes businesses make when using Facebook to connect to more potential customers and to market their business online. Click here for more details.
Digitise the Nation Tweetup Lunch
Details to follow
Heritage Boat Association ‘Live Upstream’
Details to follow
Events running throughout the week:
Dublin City Council and Age Action’s ‘Getting Started’ Computer and Mobile Phone Classes
Classes are being offered to over 55s in centres throughout the city. You are welcome to drop in and see what a computer class is like. See each day’s events for details of locations and time. For further information, please contact Robert Carroll on 087 923 1126 or rcarroll@ageaction.ie. Click here for more details.
‘The Online-Outdoor Family Quiz by PuddleDucks’
Puddleducks.ie is running an interactive competition for children. Children and families are invited to take part in an online treasure hunt which is a wonderful opportunity for parents to introduce their children to the internet in a safe, supervised and fun way. It is brought to you in association with five of Irelands’s fantastic family parks: Brigit’s Garden, Fota Wildlife Park, Castlecomer Discovery Park, Greenan Farm and Carlingford Adventure Centre. We have 15 super prizes of Family Tickets for the lucky winners. Click here for more details.
Additional Events:
- ICANDO Digital Skills Programme. For the full week of Digitise the Nation, I-CANDO.ie will make their Digitial Skills Programme available free of charge in libraries throughout the country.
Or, perhaps you’ve already set up a Facebook Page but are not sure it’s working effectively for you?
Then you’ll not want to miss this FREE webinar which is being delivered as part of the Irish Internet Association’s ‘Digitise the Nation’ week.
Krishna De (www.BizGrowthMedia.com) will be covering the 7 most common mistakes businesses make when using Facebook to connect to more potential customers and to market their business online.
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