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Thanks for the encouraging posts! I agree that digital competence adds to young people’s employment potential. But as Phil said, it’s also a vital tool to enable access to information about jobs and services. We have won funding to run a pilot residential programme at Brathay Trust for around 20 young people, probably in Years [...]

How is the pilot programme coming along, Sarah? Can you give us an update?

CLEO is a mixed architecture with connections by wireless, fibre and copper.

As an aside, the local politicians don’t seem to be very active in this. Only 1 MP out of 6 being a member isn’t very good. My County Councillor isn’t a member although I am pleased to say my District councillor is.

I think it is focussed on Eden Valley area (not just Penrith) as that’s a Big Society vanguard area as well as a BDUK broadband pilot. Constituency boundaries may also play a part in it !

Penrith is on the N-S fibre corridor too.

In the ‘Latest News on Cumbria’s Broadband Pilot’ it looks like the County Coucil are interested in using CLEO. When I worked for Kangol, before they were closed down, we used CLEO for several years and it was by far a better connection than anything else we could find. At that time the connection was [...]

I am new to this so I hope I am not asking daft questions. The proposal put forward by Barry Forde is based around Penrith, is that because a county wide solution is not the way to go and that we get a better solution by splitting into smaller groups and find the best fit [...]

Phil’s right, and I also think that those online tools are symptomatic of a bigger, underlying trend: digital technologies and their related activities are actually a growth area of the economy at the moment; we are increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure, and the growth of digital data remains exponential. This means that digital literacy is [...]