"If you'd told me 5 years ago that I'd be an advocate for digital media, I wouldn't have believed you, but digital media is such a delicious thing. You can just take your phone out and video what you're doing and put it online." Mil Lusk, Knowle West resident and now a member of the governments Digital Inclusion Taskforce.
We help people like Mil learn about and use digital media to explore opportunities for themselves and their community.
The biggest barrier to digital inclusion is not lack of access but lack of interest. Which is why we run digital workshops to help digital media appear more accessible.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. This is why people value our on-going digital, business and moral support.
We believe the key to digital inclusion is to be practical and deliver content because people will act if they see real progress being made. So that's what we focus on.
Finding solutions to social and environmental challenges via digital technologies, and within deprived communities, is not just what we do but what we love doing.
Increasing uptake of digital media inside communities requires people to approach the community in the right way, and we can provide advice to specific projects.
Hard to reach people can become easy to reach if you think carefully about what they respond to and why.
Imagine a snowball rolling down a mountain. It grows bigger and bigger but only in one direction. If the snowball were a digital inclusion project...
I was struck the other week by an article in The Sunday Times which reported that Twitter has been valued at $1 billion...
At SEA, we've drawn on our experiences of working amongst disadvantaged neighhourhoods to come up with a Social Engagement Action Plan.
