Digital Activists Tackling Technology Near You

The first of the Digital Activists for Leicester have now finished their community engagement focussed training on ‘How to be a Digital Activist'.

The DAIN Digital Activists will be volunteering their services around Leicester City in a Drop-In Session capacity. They will have laptops, net books and digital camcorders to show you.
The venues currently established for these drop-in sessions are:

WEA Centre Time: 1pm - 3pm
The conference room Days of the week: Tuesday and Friday
101 Hinckley Road
Leicester Starting 9 and 12 March 2010
LE3 0TD (exc. bank holidays, half-terms and the 1st

0116 255 6614 Tuesday of the month)

City Multi-Access Centre Time: 10am - 1pm
Leicester Adult Education Centre Days of the week: Wednesday
Wellington Street
Leicester Starting 17 March 2010
LE1 6HL

0116 229 2258

BBC Radio Leicester building Time: 10am - 12pm
Computer Suite Days of the week: Monday
St Nicholas Place
Leicester Starting 12 April 2010 (exc. bank holidays)
LE1 5LB

0116 251 6688

Digital Activists will be able to show you how to set-up an email account, how to get into social networking online, how to search the internet effectively for information, jobs, online shopping etc; they even have information on ICT courses across Leicester to help you gain ICT skills. If you have specific questions they will try their best to answer them then and there otherwise they offer an email back service whereby they will answer your query after researching it further.

Our drop-in sessions are open to everyone, please come along and our Digital Activists will try to help you tackle technology.

Check us out on Facebook, Ning, Twitter and YouTube by searching for ‘Dain Project'.