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The Digital Step project is managed by the Development Partnership.
The Development Partnership has been formulated to bring together a blend of expertise that complements, augments and takes forward existing practice within the informal and formal learning environments into a framework for the future.
The Development Partnership consists of organisations with an input to policy, access to the target group, experience of delivering innovative training initiatives and links to industry.
The members include:
Dream Ireland Ltd – Lead Partner
Dream Ireland Ltd is a research, development and consulting organisation for the creative industries, particularly in media and entertainment. Dream focuses upon the impact of digital technologies on the way we learn, work and are entertained. Working closely with government, Dream has been developing new models of learning and new structures for economic development since 1998.
www.dream-ireland.com
Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB)
The Belfast Education and Library Board is committed to providing equality, education, library and youth services which contribute to lifelong learning for all the people in Belfast. Youth services encompass a wide range of activities that aim to facilitate young people’s personal, social and educational development.
www.belb.org.uk
The Bytes Project
The Bytes Project has successfully been pioneering a highly innovative means of encouraging disadvantaged young people to participate in centres of advanced technology. Bytes operates and staffs eleven
centres in various locations in Belfast, and one in Derry. Each year some 7,000 young adults avail of Bytes Centres’ facilities and many of them are enabled to progress further into employment, training
and education.
www.bytes.org
Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI)
The Education and Training Inspectorate promote the highest possible standards of learning and teaching by monitoring, inspecting and reporting on the standard of education and training provided by schools,
colleges and other grant-aided organisations; and also by providing relevant advice to the Department of Education, the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure and the Department of Employment and Learning.
www.deni.gov.uk
WheelWorks Ltd
Established in 1995, WheelWorks exists to provide artistic and creative opportunities to young people who live in urban and rural communities all over Northern Ireland and experience barriers to participating
in the arts. Young people are involved in a variety of community based arts activities that encompass visual arts, music, drama, dance and media.
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