Here's one for your friends or relatives (or the people next door) who are not yet online. Specific help in the Melksham area!
Wiltshire Online is Wiltshire's program to get you online, and from 20th February for a period of six weeks, Melksham is going to be a pilot area to help people get online. If you're not a yet a user of the Internet, volunteer "Digital Champions" will help you to get online, to learn how to use the internet, to learn if it's something you want to do permanently, and to help you do so.
The program is run out of Wiltshire's Professional Development Centre at 3, Lancaster Park, although Digital Champions will probably meet you at a public access computer location such as the Library or Well House Manor. The program's also concerned with those who may be unable to get out, and these days with "mobile Internet:, a digital champion should be able to visit you if appropriate. Contact number - 01225 898464.
Did you know ...
* Over 8 million people in the UK are not online
* The biggest thing holding people back is the lack of internet access
* You can send emails from one computer and read replies on another
* There are publicly available internet facilities in Melksham
P.S. The Wiltshire online website is at
http://www.wiltshireonline.org ... that information is included for completeness as this article is really intended for people who are not yet online!
(written 2012-02-13, updated 2012-02-18)
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