Digital Guyana
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Earlier this summer I took part in a project to teach young people in Guyana online skills. It was set up by the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, a British charity, together with a VSO volunteer.
There were four of us involved - Chris Unitt, a blogger from Birmingham, Matt Gaffen, an arts student from South London, Hugh Reilly, a journalist from Northern Ireland and me. We spent about two months in London putting a course together and then one month in Georgetown, Guyana, teaching.
With such wide ranging experiences and interests we were able to put together a really varied course, covering:
Flash
Html/CSS
Social ...