Ilse Van Gorp Leen Boormans Digidak (Lokaal Initiatief Dichten Digitale Kloof)

digidak

Digidak is een project van SPK vzw in samenwerking met BLM Genk en IGO Leuven en wordt in de provincie Antwerpen mee ondersteunddoor Cera, de Provincie Antwerpen, POD Maatschappelijke Integratie, Microsoft, Belgacom en alle betrokken lokale besturen.

A local digital divide approach for flemish communities

SPK

– Regional Development organisation region Kempen

• Since1988

– Project-organisation


– Project-organisation

• Creative knowledge region

• Innovative welfare region

• Green experience region

– Digital divide

• Cyberskills / Iggi / Brandsite / Faze /…

• Digidak

3 starting points

– Not everyone has acces to ICT

• Need for public acces area’s where infrastructure and knowledge are available.


– People experience learning barriers

• Price ticket, large group, unknown environment, long engagement,..

• Learning barriers need to be eliminated

– Computer is a utensil, not a study-object

• Own methodology, starting from actual learning questions

Project description

– Learning environments embedded within organisations and neighbourhoods

• Specific target groups

• Neighbourhoods

•


• Trusted environments and very small-scaled

– Open house and initiation

• Starting from questions and needs

• Forwarding to regular educational initiatives

– Supervisors taking people by the hand

• volunteers

• Employment initiatives

DIGIDAK SENIOR

OCMW Dienstencentrum

DIGIDAK PRISMA

Some examples:


DIGIDAK PRISMA

Onthaalbureau nieuwkomers

DIGIDAK AKIRA

Vormingshuis voor maatschappelijk

kwetsbare jongeren

Open house activities• Getting acquainted with computer

• Lay out of letters, small magazines,…

• Surfing, internet research, mail en chat

• Advise on purchasing computer

• Meeting place


• Meeting place

Inflow• Foster organisations

• Friends and acquaintances

• VDAB (employment offices)

• Adult education

• Interimkantoren

Our visitors– Immigrants

– Seniors

– Briefly trained

– Low income groups

– Youngsters


– Youngsters

Many of our visitors have a

computer at home !

Hoogstraten (3 locaties incl bib)

Kalmthout (3 locaties incl 2 bib)

Ravels (2 locaties incl bib)

Turnhout (10 locaties)

Beerse (2 locaties incl bib)

Vorselaar (1 locatie incl bib)

Zoersel (2 locaties incl bib)

Antwerpen (digipunten incl bib)

Leopoldsburg (1 locatie)

Houthalen-Helchteren (3 locaties)

Genk (2 locaties)

Zutendaal (1 locatie)

Antwerpen Limburg- SPK - BLM


Digidak in a library

– Smaller communities: library is one of the few possible places

– Libraries wide spread in Flanders


– Adding value in different area’s

• Broadening range

• Improvement existing range

– Threshold ?

Digidak in the library of Beerse

– 1997: first pc’s for public use in Flemish libraries

– Visitors ask for training


– At first only internet training

• Financing problems

• Continuity problems

• Need for broader trainings

Digidak in the library of Beerse

– 2005: decision to start digidak in the public library

– february 2006: official opening


Evaluation of 3 years digidak in the library

– Still waiting lists for initiation lessons

– Limited use of open house


– Limitations because of opening hours library

– Limitations in reaching public

Opening digidak II

– Financial support by the Province Antwerp

– Coupled at school and welfare organisation


– Coöperation with associations

– Primary goal: reaching new target groups


Education

Ilse Van Gorp Leen Boormans Digidak (Lokaal Initiatief Dichten Digitale Kloof)