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Digital Butetown: Project SummaryProject
Digital Butetown is a digital inclusion initiative that seeks to build capacitywithin the area of Butetown, Cardiff for sharing ideas, knowledge andeveryday experience using online social media.It fits in with and supports diverse public strategies in Wales and the U.K.linked to enabling online participation and increasing the skills and use of people in the digital economy.This includes Cardiff City Council’s strategies linked to broadbanddevelopment in the city, the Welsh Assembly’s commitment to increasing andsupport public participation in digital media, the larger digital strategies of organisations such as the BBC and Channel 4 and regulators such asOFCOM.The project is funded principally by British Council Wales with additionalsupport from igloo Regeneration, as part of a social media component of itscommunity/stakeholder engagement programme linked to its development of a large site in Cardiff Bay that is currently the preferred site for a BBC Walesproduction village.
Activity to date
March 2009: Survey of local access to the internet and use of online socialmedia, skewed in favour of young people attending Fitzalan High School, thelargest secondary school in the area that serves the Butetown area.July 2009: One day ‘un-conference’ of digital media experts from UK andWales developing a forward public engagement programme devoted toincreasing digital participation in Butetown.October 2009: Practical workshop for students at Fitzalan High School on theopportunities of digital media, how to blog, and link this activity to social medianetworking, such as on Facebook. Also, a ‘clinic’ for administrators of http://www.butetown.orgto increase their knowledge of how to use thisplatform and link it to other online social media activity in the area.Around these three events, there has been engagement of key stakeholder bodies in Cardiff and elsewhere on developing digital capacity in the Bay.A record of the progress of the event, as well as discussion, is held at aGoogle Group -http://groups.google.co.uk/group/digitalbutetown. It drawsmembers from Wales, U.K. and the United States.
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Outputs
A survey of 1300 people’s internet use in the area, published as a documentand circulated to several key organisations in the area and elsewhere andused as a research resource for the design and delivery of forward activity.An event attended by 15, a Google Goup with 45 members and a sequenceof ideas maps charting routes to enable digital engagement in the area but ina networked/linked way, rather than simply providing people with tools to getonline. (This is with a forward view to linking online engagement in the areawith future public service consultation around public service delivery –discussed with the Chief Technology Officer at Cardiff City Council.)An event attended by 19 students from Fitzalan High School, a wiki andconcluding report with recommendations for forward progress on digitalengagement in Butetown.
Stakeholder Links
A key output of the project has been and remains engagement of keystakeholder organisations locally, regionally and nationally in the idea of enabling digital participation in Butetown and developing it as part of a larger public service programme linked to social inclusion and the developmentbroadband.In delivering this first stage of what is hoped will be a long-term initiative,consultees and organisations interested in developing this facet of life inButetown include:Cardiff City CouncilWelsh AssemblyCommunities FirstNovas ScarmanUniversity of Glamorgan (Centre for Storytelling)OFCOM WalesBoomerangBBC WalesDigital media production companies in Butetown and Cardiff Trydan Cardiff Social Media CafeIn the very local area, several community groups and key knowledge hubs inthe area, such as Fitzalan High School, have expressed a powerful interest indeveloping digital capacity in the future.Several stakeholder partners have expressed an interest in offering pro bonosupport or developing and delivering funding for a second stage process.
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