CommunityInternet.org.uk 01273311434

Making the Internet accessible to all

  • Our brief: to encourage and develop practical social use of the internet in safe and useful ways which enhance people's lives. We plan to do this by bringing together a number of social enterprise and charitable projects with the input of people with appropriate skill sets, knowledge and contacts. We have developed a model social development project that can be taken up in any community. We are a project initiated by the Oyster Project, an innovative, pro-active initiative by disabled people

  • Community Internet is a social enterprise initiative which promotes and delivers internet access, support and training where it is most socially needed and deploys the professional wireless network solution offered by Meraki. We have experience of working with one of the first groups in the UK to deploy Merakis on a large scale. Lewes Community Internet now delivers real social value to many people each day and assists, supports and trains disabled people and elderly people in Lewes, East Sussex.

  • The internet makes information and services available to all, however despite this wonderful promise the practical result is to make services and information available only to those who have the ability/equipment to have that access. This inevitably excludes vulnerable and isolated people on low, fixed incomes etc.

  • We specialise in assisting disabled and elderly people who would otherwise be further excluded. We encourage participants to become volunteers themselves and to pass on the skills they have learnt.

  • Community Internet encourages initiatives that seek to address the issues of social exclusion and skill acquisition and actively delivers solutions where they are needed.

  • We are supported by dITs Disability IT Services who provide IT support and knowledge. Entirely staffed by volunteers who are members of the Oyster Project dITs provides support and equipment for our projects.

  • Community Internet will also be supporting www.lewestv.net in conjunction with the Oyster Project and the video, photography, craft and culture groups the Oyster Project creates and supports.