Current Programmes
Wellington ICT manages a number of programmes and projects:
City housing computer hubs
The Digital Inclusion Strategy of Wellington City Council Housing aspires to increase access to ICT for City Housing tenants as an enabler to improve social capital and civic engagement, a major contributor to economic growth.
The Wellington ICT Trust has been identified to support the strategy by providing capacity building initiatives to tenants and directly managing the computer hubs located at the Newtown park flats and Arlington Apartments.
e-Rider Training
The e-Rider Training project is an expansion of the former Wellington e-Rider programme part-funded through the CPF. As a new project in its own right, it will increase the capability of the voluntary groups to use ICT, and build individual skills and confidence so that volunteers can better utilise ICT in the course of their groups’ community work, and if necessary move on to more formal courses run by mainstream (tertiary) providers.
The project will focus on developing and providing ICT training targeted at the needs of small- to medium-sized community groups and housing tenants in the Wellington region.
e-Engage Your Community Events
Wellington ICT envisions to engage, equip and empower community and voluntary groups by providing access to ICT, networking and collaboration, capacity building and upskilling programme.
EYC Conference is a conference about the web that equips community and voluntary organisations with digital tools to better achieve their objectives.
EYC unConference is a free learning event for people from community groups who use the web/ IT to engage people and stay connected. This is a conference with a difference: everyone coming sets the agenda together and creates a sharing environment based on what is important to you.
Find out more at www.eyc.org.nz
Stepping UP
Stepping UP, a programme of the 2020 Communications Trust, is an ICT training programme targetted at parents who have graduated from Computers in Homes and others in their communities, encouraging them to ‘step up’ to further learning opportunities and enhanced job opportunities.
Wellington ICT is a partner of Stepping UP to deliver training to tenants at the Newtown Park Flats and Arlington Apartments in Wellington.
Web Rider: building websites for community groups
The Web-rider seeks to assist high needs marginalised community groups in Wellington City to have a web presence by equipping them with the necessary skills to develop and manage their own digital space.
The Web-rider capitalises on the model and successes of the e-Rider who provides unbiased practical advice and technical support to community groups in a language understood by non-profit and voluntary organisations.
The Web-rider programme seeks to:
- equip priority groups with skills to develop their own web presence
- empower groups by generating a knowledge base of web presence tools and providing advise on ICT tools and best practices
- conduct coaching and trainings to community groups to get the best out of technology
- manage the ICT gateway, a repository of IT skills of volunteers and IT community needs on web presence
Whanau Link – Phase Four
Independent evaluation revealed the need to extend the service nationwide. In this light, Phase Four will conduct project planning and scoping to extend the service to all hospices in New Zealand.