Finding work in the digital age isn’t as straightforward as job hunting once was. Thanks to the ever accelerating growth of technology, jobs are evolving faster than universities and TAFEs can keep up with. This is the space Academy Xi was born into: the cross-section of up-skilling and professional development, where our range of courses are designed to fill emerging skills gaps in the industry and prepare the workforce of tomorrow.
The Resilience Project delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools, sports clubs and businesses and provides them with evidence based, practical strategies to build resilience and become happier. They have delivered programs to over 500 schools around the country and have worked with elite sporting teams including the Australian cricket, netball and soccer teams, NRL and AFL clubs. Here they share the motivation behind #DISconnect Day.
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Go Digi is a national digital literacy program with the goal of supporting more than 300,000 Australians to improve their digital skills. And we’re lucky to have over 350 Network Partners across Australia, to share this vision. Every month we highlight one of our amazing Network Partners as they share how they’re working towards a digitally inclusive society.
We last featured Campaspe Regional Library, this month we’re pleased to introduce Network Partner, The City of Unley Libraries.
Sandie O'Neill is a digital inclusion evangelist, coach and Tribal Leader at The Agile Village. She facilitates workshops utilising the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology to build online communities.
Her vision is an empowered connected world where everyone has a voice.
Sandie O'Neill is a digital inclusion evangelist, coach and Tribal Leader at The Agile Village. She facilitates workshops utilising the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology to build online communities.
Her vision is an empowered connected world where everyone has a voice.
Steve Lavakis, City of Greater Geelong, was one of our Mentor Award Nominations in the 2016 National Year of Digital Inclusion (NYDI). He was nominated for his great work training and volunteering his time teaching coding, one of the most important jobs skills of the future, in the Geelong community.
Do you have ideas about how the government, the private sector and the community can work together to boost the digital skills and confidence of all Australians? Have you seen any great examples of community programmes improving people’s confidence and digital capability? Or maybe you are interested in the role of regulation when it comes to doing business in the digital economy? If so, the Australian Government’s Digital Economy Strategy consultation will give you a chance to share your view.
The Go Digi team knows that there are an infinite number of different and creative ways in which you can run digital literacy training. Glenorchy LINC (Tasmania) decided digital literacy training accompanied with coffee and cake was the perfect combination! As big fans of cake and coffee ourselves- we wholeheartedly agree!
In the City of Greater Geelong’s Community Development & Engagement Unit, loud, rigorous and passionate social justice conversations are oft heard. When one of our team stumbled across an email about Infoxchange’s work in digital inclusion a few years ago, a new exciting topic was borne, discussed, applauded and a new direction was sealed!
The City of Salisbury – in the northern suburbs of Adelaide – recently screened the "Cyber Seniors" documentary as a Go Digi Pop-Up event at the Jack Young Centre – a community centre providing services for people aged over 50 in the Salisbury area.
The Go Digi Blog is where you can read about different things happening the Go Digi program.
Sometimes these blog posts will feature Go Digi Network Partners and their activities.
To read more of one of the the Go Digi blog posts from the home page or main blog area - click the green button that says read more. This will take you to a new page where you can read the whole blog post.
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