Archive for GoGenie
BBC to make Dr Who Experience fully accessible
Yesterday the BBC responded fully to Samatha’s blog complaint about her visit to the Dr Who Experience in April 2011.
Their email* (cc’d to Pesky People by the BBC and printed here with their full agreement) unreservedly takes on her complaints and they will address them fully including offering Samantha a return visit as their guest and a full refund for her and her party (of 7).
It is a fantastic result for Samantha and will not only...
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Category Blogs, Digital, Digital Inclusion, Digital Rights, GoGenie, Media, Television Tags: @dalekette, Alison Smith, BBC, Disability Discrimination, Dr Who, Dr Who Experience, Equalities Act 2010, Go Genie, Pesky People, Philip Fleming Head of Communications BBC Worldwide, Samantha Chisnall
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
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
Developers wanted!
Pesky People is looking for dynamic web developers on a pilot build of Go Genie. It needs that brilliant someone to do the build (individual or company) and make it a reality.
We are open to either a one off build that is flexible and agile that can be carried forward by another company and are also open to developing a longer term mutual relationship.
Budget for initial build from scratch is £6,000. We don’t have an unlimited funds so...
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Category Blogs, Digital, Digital Britain, Digital Inclusion, GoGenie, News Tags: @documentally, @NESTA_UK, Acuwomen, Angela Maxwell OBE, Antonio Gould, Arts Council England West Midlands, Audiences Central, Black Country Touring, Business Link. Unltd, Deaf, developers, Digital Content Development Programme, Digital Inclusions, Disabled, Go Genie, NESTA, podnosh, Reboot Britain, Supernice Studios
Pesky People attending SXSW
We’ve brought Go Genie to the biggest digital interactive conference SXSW). It takes over the whole city, 30,000 people are attending and Pesky People is one of them.
So why are we here? Go Genie is a one stop digital platform to enable disabled people to find access information on line. It makes it easy to find access information, crowdsources advice, puts information and access at it’s heart. Truely a network of knowleged to get...
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Category Awards, Blogs, Digital Inclusion, GoGenie Tags: Go Genie, Scr, South By South West, SXSW, SXSW Interactive 2011