I had a truly awesome day yesterday keynoting the Communities 2.0 conference at the Cardiff Swalec stadium. I gave my talk “If I can do it, so can you” which is all about how technology and education have changed my life, helping me to bring my family out of poverty and into prosperity. I had so much fabulous feedback and met some really lovely people. The digital inclusion people in Wales are an absolutely wonderful bunch.
Communities 2.0 are just having their funding cut at a time when getting people online and tech savvy is becoming critical to lead an everyday life. It’s such a shame that all the good digital inclusion work, which has put Wales in a leading position in Europe, is now being scaled down.
Being in Cardiff was also a great opportunity to meet up with my fab new friend Aimee Bateman. We met when we both gave a talk at TedxClapham recently. I expect really great things from Aimee, what a superstar 😃
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many lovely tweets from one event. Incedible support. Thank you Communities 2.0 and everyone at the #c2conf for all your interest and questions.
Reblogged this on Transformation and commented:
I was so lucky to get a place at Silicon Republic last year to hear the amazing Sue Black. Also met the incredible Liz Waters from An Cosan. They have now set up #techmums with a great team in Tallaght.
Thanks very much, so glad you enjoyed my talk and thanks for the support for #techmums 🙂
Absolutely loved your talk. Thanks to the conference organizers for livestreaming the event. I blogged about this here
https://ronmader.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/c20conf/
Thanks very much Ron, glad that you enjoyed it :))