“The purpose of the digital world is to enhance the real world we already know - or it has no value at all.”

Citizens of the Pre-Digital Era - photo by 70-year old digital beginner Dacey. Fifty-Plus Digital - (https://50pd.uk) - smartphone awareness workshop in Dalston Curve Garden (https://dalstongarden.org), Hackney, London, UK - emerging from the COVID crisis - August 2021.

#DigitalInclusion #DigitalParticipation #SocialInclusion #RealWorldFirst

By the way - I'm not in the photo.

The purpose of the digital world is to enhance the real world we already know - or it has no value at all.

Was https://x.com/RickCrust until Oct 2022. Then self-hosted multi-user Mastodon, but could not justify the cost and effort required. Mastodon was not the best platform for our social-digital inclusion projects - but I'm sticking with it because I think it will become more relevant in the future.

Photo taken at a smartphone awareness workshop by 70-year old digital beginner Dacey. Dalston Curve Garden, Hackney, London, UK - emerging from the COVID crisis - August 2021.

#RealWorldFirst #SocialNetworks

By the way - I'm not in the photo.