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Milton Keynes Council - Cultural Diversity
Encouraging greater social and digital inclusion for minority ethnic groups, other culturally disadvantaged or excluded groups in majority populations, and for recent migrant populations.
Milton Keynes Council is a UK local authority area with great cultural diversity and significant social and digital deprivation issues. ConnectMK and DigitalMK are digital inclusion services provided by the Council to improve social cohesion. A wide range of initiatives include: introducing WiMAX wireless broadband to Milton Keynes, loaning PCs at low cost with high quality software provided free of charge, providing telehealth devices, improving the accessibility of online public services, implementing innovative avatar technology on the council website and opening 15 Digital Service Centres in areas of high deprivation.
The Council has also become the first in the world to be authorised by Microsoft to provide social software licenses.
Further information on Milton Keynes Council is available from their website, www.digitalmk.org or alternatively in case study format on www.epractice.eu
Click here to view a short film on the project - plays as windows media video
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| Representatives from Milton Keynes Council receiving their Trophy |