DAISI project and partnership

WORKSHOP

Explore DAISI's transformative approach to digital accessibility, inclusion, support, and innovation. As Gloucestershire’s largest digital partnership, DAISI brings together communities, local organisations, and leaders to champion digital equity across the county.

Workshop: Our session highlights community-led data initiatives and resources to support digital equity, offering practical tools, insights, and organisational support to bridge the digital divide in your local community. Whether you're looking to enhance digital access, learn about community data practices, or discover collaborative strategies, join us to see how DAISI empowers communities through technology, one step at a time.

Daniel Gale is the pioneering force behind the DAISI Project, a flagship initiative under the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council (GRCC) aimed at tackling digital exclusion and fostering digital equity across Gloucestershire. As the Digital Equity Manager, Daniel leads efforts to provide inclusive access to technology, essential devices, and digital skills to those most in need. Based in Gloucestershire, GRCC's DAISI Project represents a comprehensive approach to bridging the digital divide, focusing on empowering communities through digital access, open-source solutions, and skill-building initiatives. Under Daniel's leadership, DAISI has transformed lives by distributing thousands of devices and SIM cards and electrical safety equipment, establishing databanks, repair cafes and device banks in partnership with organisations and groups accross Gloucestershire. Daniel’s vision for DAISI is grounded in his commitment to social justice, inclusivity, and community-driven solutions. His work at GRCC continues to champion digital equity, enabling people to connect, learn, and thrive in an increasingly digital world.

NECESSITY.INK

LIGHTNING TALK/WORKSHOP

From Numbers to Notes: Humanising Data Through Sound

Lightning Talk: Did you know Data can sing? Tiziana Alocci will share how she uses sound to mobilise interest and action about data and why she has developed her artistic practice at the intersection between data and art.

Workshop: Join this workshop to learn practical techniques for turning data into sound through free and open-source tools. Using data about school absences and exclusions as the source material for this workshop you have a chance to combine instructional teaching with hands-on exercises and signposting to numerous free resources.

Tiziana Alocci is a London-based data artist, international speaker and lecturer working at the intersection of art and technology. Creating data-driven compositions out of invisible phenomena such as sleep patterns, soundscapes, movement of people, and perfumes, she makes the intangible tangible, the invisible visible interlacing science with poetry. She's the founder of the London-based data design studio NECESSITY.INK.

Active Gloucestershire

LIGHTNING TALK

Lightning talk: Understanding places, beyond the numerical data

Active Gloucestershire is an agent of change, uniting individuals and a huge range of national policy makers and organisations around one of the greatest challenges facing our society today: inactivity. We inspire, connect and enable people in Gloucestershire to get active in a way that works for them, and we want to support those who can help others move more, like activity providers, sports clubs and key partners in the county. We do this through we can move – Gloucestershire’s social movement that brings people together from across the sports and physical activity sector, public sector of voluntary and community sector. We all work together to help people benefit from a more active lifestyle.

Data Orchard CIC

LIGHTNING TALK/WORKSHOP

Lightning talk: What is data maturity? Why is it so important in the context of AI and ‘post-truth’ world. What are the headlines from the ’State of the non-profit sector’s data maturity?' launched Oct 2024.

Workshop: how to use a data maturity framework to plan for improvement. Join this workshop if you want to know how you can use the Data Maturity Framework to shape and inform your data strategy. Suitable for freelancers and organisations. Madeleine Spinks, Co Chief Executive of Data Orchard CIC and Jay Haigh, CG Company Manager will run an interactive session sharing CG learning from using the DM framework to help you to decide what your next data steps could be.

Data Orchard CIC is based in Herefordshire and operates across the UK. We're a social enterprise with a mission to enable every nonprofit organisation to use data effectively to achieve their goals. I'm a co-founder, director and Co-Chief Exec with many hats including working with organisations to help them use data well.

Barnwood Trust

WORKSHOP

Join this workshop to hear how the Funding and Influencing Team at Barnwood Trust alongside commissioners from Gloucestershire Children's Services are using data to enhance Short Breaks for disabled children and young in Gloucestershire.

Watch the video about the Short Breaks programme.

Barnwood Trust has awarded one-year funding to 6 local organisations through its latest themed funding programme, Short Breaks. A series of projects will test some best-practice delivery principles and learn about what impact this could have on Short Breaks provision in Gloucestershire. This video highlights the impact of these projects so far.

Connected by Data

WORKSHOP

Develop your Community Campaign on Data.

Workshop: Communities campaign all the time: for new road crossings, to protect community venues, or to fund new services. But how can communities campaign to have more control over the ways in which data is changing our world? Join this practical workshop to explore a new resource on Community Campaigns on Data and develop your own plans to address data power in 2025.

Connected by Data is the campaign for communities to have a powerful say in the governance of data and AI. Over the last year we've been running a Community Campaigns on Data learning cohort, working with campaigners from across the country to explore practical approaches to change how data is collected, managed, shared and used so that it serves community needs. Tim Davies is Connected by Data's Director of Research and Practice and a member of the Create Gloucestershire Board. Tim has spent the last 20 years exploring the intersection of participation, power and technology with groups across the globe. Emily Macaulay is Head of Delivery and Operations at Connected by Data, bring a background working in public libraries across Devon and Torbay and in the criminal justice system across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.