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You can read the full story on the UNICEF site. Click Here. As part of our (postponed) Animex event in Saltburn, artist collective Hirvitalo from Finand are offering a workshops for schools and community groups as set out below. Our Finish visitors will arrive in time to deliver these on Feb 28th March 1st and we hope to film them and show highlights in Saltburn on March 3rd at Saltburn Community Theatre. Workshops so far are 28th Feb 1.15pm Whitecliffe Primary, Carlin How 4.30pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Juniors) 7.00pm St Cuthberts Centre Crook (Seniors) 1st March 7.00pm Destinations, Saltburn (Upstairs) 7.00pm JUNIORS – Pirates and Vikings (15-30 min) SENIORS – The Post Industrial World – Dystopia to Utopia (30-45min) Emptied factories and no jobs. Finland and England have this in common. Paper, steel, coal and other mass industries are history and are being replaced with??? A workshop will give participants an empty factory building and we will try and build a future with it. A new paradigm – a commons industry is the aim and an animation will be made of the process. NOTE ’The commons are resources that are collectively owned or shared between or among people and can include everything from natural resources and land to software.’ About the artists Finnish artist collective Hirvitalo initiated last year a project Second Forest which explores the cultural change of globalizing boreal forest in the age of social media by various artistic means including discussions and workshops in both virtual and real world environments. This year the Second Forest project is focusing on the concept of Everyman’s Rights, a Scandinavian version of Common Rights which has profoundly shaped the relationship between Nordic people and the forest. This concept is currently in a crisis, which is caused by the globalizing industry based on forest products. Also the whole concept of Commons is changing due the growing distrust to privatizing of natural resources and development of the Peer-to-Peer culture in the online world. Second Forest project team, Markus Petz, Ismo Torvinen and Mikko Lipiäinen are now organizing workshops and discussions in which the past, present and the future of the Everyman’s Rights and the Commons is explored so that we gain a better understanding of the global importance of these concepts. For more info or to host a workshop contact: Steve Thompson, M – 07795 826953 The Digital Inclusion Task Force headed by Martha LanE Fox, today released thier Manifesto for a Networked Nation. Some interesting points…..but an awful front cover!! The document can be found here http://raceonline2012.org/manifesto Interesting news item on a possible solution to rural broadband issues. Not an option for all but interesting nevertheless. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8619114.stm According to the latest research from the Champion for Digital Inclusion, there are currently one in five adults who still don’t use computers and the internet. It’s often the people facing the toughest times who have the most to gain from what technology has to offer, and as the internet rapidly becomes a tool for everyday life, those without the access, skills or motivation to use it are increasingly left behind. Government figures indicate there are six milion adults currently offline who are socially and digitally excluded. Today, the Prime Minister made it clear that digital inclusion had become both an issue of social equity and economic common sense. In his speech at the Royal Society of the Arts on Wednesday, Gordon Brown launched ‘Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government’. He said: “Our aim is – within the next five years – to shift the great majority of our large transactional services to become online only – and this has the potential to save as a first step 400 million pounds but as transaction after transaction goes on line billions more….But in order to achieve our ambitions for this third generation of public services we must ensure that no one in Britain is left behind in this communications revolution. Through our programme for Digital Britain – high speed broadband will be extended to every home so that we can create genuinely interactive service… And today I can announce that we will invest a further £30 million with UK online centres, championed by Martha Lane Fox’s digital inclusion taskforce, to get at least another one million people online by 2012.” In October 2009, a report published by Champion for Digital Inclusion Martha Lane Fox in conjunction with Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) showed the economic benefit of getting everyone online in the UK was £22 billion. As well as increasing employability and business performance, online citizens mean government can use more efficient online channels to deliver services, and conduct less face to face or paper-based transactions. PwC calculated that getting all digitally excluded people online and making just one transaction with government services each month would save £900 million annually. The financial benefit of getting everyone in the UK online is clearly huge, but on a smaller scale the research found the benefits equally compelling. People save an average £560 a year by shopping and paying bills online, kids with internet access at home do better in their exams, and most jobs are now advertised and applied for online. What’s more, people with basic IT skills earn up to 10% more than their offline counterparts The Prize Draw for Moorsholm has taken place today and the winning Survey Number is……. MH 53
The results of the prize draw for those who have submitted surveys will be placed here and also on the page here After going over the plans for Saltburn’s survey on Tuesday we are now rolling out the survey in all of our designated villages. Already we have returns coming back and the next few weeks should see this key part of the project really taking shape.  Saltburn CR's getting to grips with the survey distribution Many thanks to all the Community Researchers for your contributions to the planning, distribution and collection of the surveys. Follow the progress of Skinningrove Bonfire here
Interesting bit on the BBC website. Martha’s own site is also quite intersting |
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Children from Whitecliffe Primary School ,in Carlin How, have created signs to let people in local villages know about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). These signs can be seen in Skinningrove and Carlin How.