Archive for May, 2011
Getting Online Together 12th May 2011 < have your say
Yesterday was an extreme day for me: witnessing the end of the Hardest Hit march and my personal fears from the current cuts. This was followed by the opening of Getting Online Together conference (more later) where the opening video was from David Cameron giving a speech which included the success of getting disabled people online.
I didn’t clap, I shook my head (you can’t yell at a video recording – which by the way WAS NOT...
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Category Digital Conferences, Digital Discrimination, Digital Inclusion, GoGenie, News Tags: David Cameron, Deaf, Digital Inclusion, Disability, Getting online together 2011, Helen Milner, Martha Lane Fox, National Digital Inclusion Conference 2010
Dr Who Experience
Guest post by Samantha
UPDATE – Monday 16th May 2011: It took no time for the BBC to respond to Samantha after Pesky People alerted them to her blog post about her visit Dr Who Experience in April.
Samantha is delighted at the response from Philip Fleming, Head of Communications, Global Brands, BBC Worldwide
It is well worth taking the time to read Philip Fleming’s response in full as it shows that it is worth letting a company know...
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Category Blogs, Digital, Digital Discrimination, Digital Inclusion Tags: BBC, Deaf, Disability Awareness, Disability Discrimination, Disability Discrimination Act, discrimination, Doctor Who, Doctor Who Experience, Equalities Act, Equalities Act 2010, Matt Smith, visual impairment
Culture Hack Scotland (let down by Network Rail)
Pesky People is at Culture Hack Scotland day 2 (7th May 2011) which “brings together Edinburgh’s world-famous festivals and other leading Scottish cultural organisations with software developers and creative technologists to see what amazing new things they can make in just 24 hours.”. I’m here to see what’s brewing (great stuff), how open data can improve access and meet people.
I’ve discovered it is really difficult to...
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Category Arts and Culture, Blogs, GoGenie, News, Videos Tags: access, Disabled, Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Edinburgh Waverley Station, Scotrail