Overview

These sessions take place once a month on Fridays (the third Friday of the month). Part of the Byres Community Hub public programme, they have been running since March 2023 in partnership with the Health and Social Care Alliance ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) Team and social enterprise, Weekday WOW Factor.

Formerly known as ‘ALISS in Wowland community drop-ins', they included a ‘community spotlight’ from a variety of local organisations and were designed to help people find out about health and wellbeing activities in Glasgow and connect with others face to face. The community spotlights always prompted lots of discussion with members of the public attending and the issue that came up time and time again was the digital divide and the impact this is having on people’s mental health.

Future Plans

We are therefore going to focus these sessions going forward on providing more support around digital access to ensure we do not leave people behind and as such propose renaming them ‘Digital Fridays’. We hope that through the sessions, people can feel more informed and empowered to access digital services and Byres Hub can build up a network for organisations we can signpost and refer people to depending on their digital needs and investigate if there is a need in the Hub itself, to provide support for people for their own devices.

Digital Fridays

On Friday 21st November, we invite individuals and organisations interested in this issue and/or working in this space to join us to help shape the programme for 2026. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided between 11am and 12noon in Byres Hub and we will move to room 102 at 12pm for our community spotlight. Cameron MacFarlane from the ALISS Programme will reintroduce us to ALISS and tell us about the database's new features and help people to both access and add information.

All welcome. No need to book but if you have any additional requirements, please email byreshub@glasgow.ac.uk or call 0141 330 4040.

 

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First published: 16 February 2024

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