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World leading social entrepreneur to headline Social Business Wales Conference
Sam Conniff-Allende, author of the critically acclaimed book ‘Be More Pirate’, will address this year’s Social Business Wales Conference, explaining how the rebels of the high seas were the original social entrepreneurs.
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Allan Shepherd, Powys Cohousing Project Officer: My first six months
Allan talks about his first six months on the job, his personal experience of living in a housing co-op, ‘high-functioning neighbourhoods’ and the benefits of sharing living space with sociability, strength, care and independence in equal measure.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Ashley Bale – Digital Inclusion and Innovations Manager, Innovate Trust
Ashley Bale, Digital Inclusion and Innovations Manager at the Innovate Trust, talks us through how, working co-operatively, society can help close the digital divide with initiative such as ‘Tech for Good’ and how digital inclusion for supported people promotes independence, well-being and provides new opportunities.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Helen Northmore – Programme Delivery Manager, Digital Health Ecosystem Wales
Helen Northmore, Programme Delivery Manager at Digital Health Ecosystem Wales, gives us her insight into the adoption of digital healthcare technology such as patients managing their health online and the emergence of ‘Digital Native’ doctors.
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New £1m programme to support the development of co-operative and community-led homes for people in need in Wales
The Wales Co-operative Centre has been awarded a further three years funding, totalling £1 million, to support the development of co-operative and community-led housing in Wales.
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New guide promotes digital inclusion in health and care in Wales
Welsh Government, NHS Wales informatics Service and the Wales Co-operative Centre are working together to improve digital inclusion in Wales with the publication of a new guide.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Louise Blackwell – Community Development Officer, ClwydAlyn Housing
Louise Blackwell explains the key to being an effective Digital Leader is to begin with each individuals’ unique requirements by first starting with rudimentary First Click-style courses to get over fears about using technology then explore individuals’ wants, needs and passions.
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Welsh business owners urged to avoid a ‘close shave’ with their company’s future by going employee-owned
A new campaign launches today, on Employee Ownership Day, to encourage more Welsh businesses to consider this progressive and forward looking approach to succession planning.
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£3 million EU funds to support new Social Business Wales project
EU funds totalling £3 million will support a new project which will help create new social businesses across West Wales and the Valleys, the Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport, Lee Waters, has announced.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Scott Tandy – Community Regeneration Officer, Newydd Housing Association
Scott Tandy talks about his time with Newydd Housing Association, supporting tenants to get online, the ‘digital bench’ youth design project for charging devices in public while providing emergency shelter for the homeless, getfit.wales and utilising the ‘Loan IT’ scheme to reduce barriers for access to digital equipment.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Karen Lewis – Director of Engagement and Innovation, Wales Co-operative Centre
Wales Co-operative Centre stalwart Karen Lewis talks about her tenure as Director of Communities and Inclusion and her hopes for promoting digital inclusion in Wales as the newly-appointed Director of Engagement and Innovation and Chair of the Digital Leaders Network in Wales in 2019, focusing on collaborative working among digital leaders.
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New Welsh Government programme to ‘boost people’s digital confidence, health and well-being’
The programme will be delivered by the Wales Co-operative Centre. It will commence on 1 July 2019, and provide digital inclusion training and support to organisations working with older people, people with a limiting long-standing illness, disability or infirmity, unemployed people or vulnerable families so they can help their clients, tenants, customers or service users.
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