Regional ICT Champion

Submitted our bid to the ICT Hub yesterday to be the South East's regional ICT Champion. We've bid with Lucian Borcanescu, who is currently regional accessibility champion, which is one big advantage, and is based in Slough, which is another big advantage.

It means we'll each be able to cover more manageable patch. Given the size of the south east region it would be nigh on impossible to work on this sensibly without breaking it into sub-regional areas.

If successful I'll be working one or two days a week for the next year, creating links with other ICT-related projects and linking into local networks of frontline organisations to raise awareness of the support available from the ICT Hub [and others]. I'll also be trying to create an ICT Strategy for the region, building on the report published recently that evaluated the South East Regional ICT Demonstration Project, of which SCIP was a part. Hopefully that will appear on the RAISE site soon.

Will find out next week whether we're successful with the bid - got to have an interview first.

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