Digital Activist Inclusion Network

Acronym of the case:

DAIN

Web address of the case:

http://www.dainproject.org.uk

Country of the case:

United Kingdom

City/region:

Nottingham/East Midlands

Posting Date:

26 July 2010

Last Edited Date:

02 August 2010

Author:

andrea riccio (CATTID "Sapienza" University of Rome)

volunteers | Digital Divide | participation

Type of initiative

Project or service
Promotion/awareness campaign

Case Abstract

The Digital Activist Inclusion Network (DAIN) is a volunteer project working across the English East Midlands. DAIN aims to promote digital inclusion by encouraging people to use technology with the help of volunteers (digital activists).

Description of the case

Domain

eInclusion

Topic

Digital literacy and competences | eAccessibility | Geographical eInclusion | ICT and community development

Sector

Other Social Services

Start date - End date

January 2010 (Ongoing)

Date operational

January 2010

Target Users

Older people (60+) | People with no or poor digital literacy | Unemployed people

Target Users Description

Unemployed people
Older people
Other digitally excluded people

Scope

Local (city or municipality) | Regional (sub-national)

Status

Pilot

Language(s)

English

Policy Context and Legal Framework

DAIN is an Innovation Transnational and Mainstreaming European Social Fund (ESF) project established to develop, test and deliver approaches to challenge the digital divide and help widen participation in employment and learning.

Project Size and Implementation

Type of initiative

Awareness-raising information

Overall Implementation approach

Non-profit sector

Technology choice

Proprietary technology

Funding source

Public funding EU

Project size

Implementation: €300-499,000

Yearly cost:

€49-299,000

Implementation and Management Approach

The project will recruit and train at least 100 Digital Activists (volunteers).

Study trips to transnational partner organisations are made.

A diverse suite of tools will be developed to support digital engagement with the communities of place, interest and identity that are targeted within the project.

The team of Digital Activists will be supported to engage over 3000 digitally excluded individuals in activities to promote einclusion and create a DAIN community learning environment and virtual conferences.

Impact, innovation and results

Impact

At least 175 community-based ICT courses per year;
An action research model of design and delivery will record and evaluate the project methodology, methods and outcomes
Development of a regional Digital Inclusion Network to enable free sharing of information, good practice and resources.

In the last year of the project all the above will culminate in extensive dissemination activities at local, regional, national and international levels.

Track record of sharing

DAIN has transnational partners:

ILI/FIM (Institut fur Lern-Innovation FIM Neues Lernen) [Institute for Innovation in elearning],Germany;
EifEl (European Intitute For elearning), France;
Lambrakis Foundation, Greece
Menon Network EIG, Belgium

The objectives of the DAIN project transnational work are:

To identify locations of good practice of engagement of excluded groups in learning and developing ICT skills;
To enable Digital Activists (DAs) to investigate and report back on these models, using web 2.0 and multimedia tools;
To enable DAs to participate in online communication and collaboration with partners and groups they have engaged with in member states;
To create content for the community learning environment (CLE), in the form of multimedia reports from study visits that promote examples of good practices.

Lessons learnt

Currently, we cannot give any lessons learnt as the project is ongoing and we want to look at the final results.

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