Social cohesion through Digital inclusion

1. Socialcohesion through Digital inclusion

2. method for community building • Get to know your neighbors. That is a basic principle of digidak • We deploy local volunteers, living in the neighborhood itself to teach digital skills or to supervise offline activities • Digitally excluded residents will be strengthened • Activity based approach • Social cohesion is increased

3. Approach

4. Encouraging participation • Start from social network analysis • Information from partner(s) (integral approach) • Outreaching needs research • Technical inventory • Social inventary (Asset based community development – ABCD method) • Offer around common needs & interests, start from Appreciative inquiry • Work with/on local talents • Initiations/activities tailor made & on demand • Collective activation (teach the teacher – encourage social participation)

5. Appreciative Inquiry • What is going well and what has worked in the past? Discovery • What else would inspire the neighborhood? Dream • What should that look like? Design • What will we need to do to get there? Destiny

6. Asset based community development • Asset Based Community Development's premise is that communities can drive the developmentprocess themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognised assets. Thereby responding to challenges and creating local social improvement and economic development.

7. 5 steps of ABCD

10. How do we do that?

11. Initiations • Work with practical examples in their own vicinity to unlock digital skills from the start • Work with digital counter (e-loket) • Opening hours weigh station (containerpark), town hall, bank, post office, general practicioner,… • Time schedule for public transportation • Work with platform social housing • Online banking

12. Telecentre • Telecentre used for; • Practicing subject matter • Aid for technical problems on own device • Free use of internet • Digital help for homework or co-working place • Support for general demands • Guidance to local care centre or services

13. Activities

15. Role of thelocalvolunteer • Main task to teach or mentor initiations and/or telecentre • Can be deployed for secondary tasks (maintenance of the building and garden, organising or mentoring activities, communication, promo,…) • Non-ICT initiations for collective activation (teach other basic skills, vocational training, budget training, numeracy, crafts, health & sport,…) • Antennas for social prescription • Carefully educated on digital and soft skills, opportunity for self-care and improving personal wellbeing

16. Steering committee

17. Jong Digidak • Jong Digidak, a digital youthorganisationforchildrenandyoungstersbetween 6 and 18 yearsold. • We offer education & leisure time, alwayswith a direct digital approach. • We work on media literacy, develop games (basic), teachto program and code and support the ICT-package theylearn in school (homeworkguidance, programming,…) • We organisetailor made (digital) activities, always in co-creationwiththechildren, theirparentsand schools (triade aroundthechild)

19. Social impact • Evolution in analysis neighborhoodbetween baseline measurementandfinal survey • Degree of satisfaction on living in theneighborhood: + 23% • Interest in activecommunalwork: +31% • Impact digidak on social life: +52% • Percentage that was digitalystrenghtenedby Digidak/Unigo: 88% • Collectiveactivation • Neutral position (notclaimed) • Digidak locationapproved as a community house by SHC

20. What’s in itfor me? • Increasedinsightfor partner(s) • Filteredandchanneled information, • Possibilityforformal actors to approach the area in aninformalmanner • Digidak becomesanantennafor info fromthe partner(s) • First step toparticipationlocal community • Local actors andorgansiationscan introduce themselves in the community house