Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
COFFEE & COMPUTERS/Wood Green & Turnpike Lane. Call for Volunteers.
Coffee & Computers are delighted to be launching a new group at The Shine Centre, (91 Turnpike Lane, London N8 0DY). Our first session will be on Thursday July 21st (11.00 am). New volunteers are always needed. If you have patience and basic home computer skills, we cordially invite you to get involved with this rewarding and exciting project.
Call Eric on 079 7101 9542, or email info@coffeecomputers.org for more information.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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But also increasingly the only way that people will be able to claim benefits, do job searches for JSA or access vital services. All these things are going online and people have no choice but to use the internet because the government has decreed it that way.
Digital exclusion is a big problem for the marginalised, as you call them, because without at least basic skills and access usually via a library or a community centre they will be marginalised even further.
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You're talking about etiquette - I'm talking about government policy.
If your internet access is one hour at the library to do all your job search applications so as not to get sanctioned then wasting it looking at cat pictures would seem foolhardy if you are to eat next week.
Every new technology changes behaviour and people bemoan it - remember when television warped young minds? - but telling people who have to use it that they should just say no isn't going to wash down the job centre.
And let's not even get into the sub-text here that poor people shouldn't be encouraged onto the Internet as they'll only waste their time!
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Permalink Reply by Coffee and Computers on
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Dear FPR & Liz. Whereas I, in no way, want to discourage the exchange of opinions, I am sorry that our listing has provoked the discussion that it has in response to a request for volunteers on a very real project that is helping people use modern technology for a variety of positive purposes - none the least in order to increase their human contact with the world. I'd appreciate it greatly if you could carry on the conversation elsewhere. Best wishes. Eric
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Hi Margaret. Thank you very much for volunteering. Your assistance will be most welcome. I'll email you in the next couple of days with details. Kind regards. Eric.
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Permalink Reply by Cosette P. Bocanegra on
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Hi Eric, could you give me more information on the next dates for volunteers? I would like to help if I can move around my working schedule. Many thanks.
Cosette
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Hi Cosette
We have a session this Wednesday at Hornsey Library at 10.30 and on Thursday week at The Shine Centre, Turnpike Lane at 11.00. Please kindly email me at info@coffeecomputers.org to let me know if you could make either of these. Thanks very much. Eric
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Permalink Reply by Margaret Moxom on
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Please take my name off your list of interested parties. I have moved out of the area. Thanks.
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