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>£50 MILLION FUELS LEARNING REVOLUTION FOR ALL
>EMBARGO: Details of awards are strictly embargoed until
> 10.30hrs Monday 2nd July 2001
>
>NEWS CONFERENCE 10.00hrs 2nd July 2001
>The Theatre, Science Museum, London
>
>SPEAKERS will include:
> Baroness Blackstone, Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media &
>Sport.
> Baroness Jill Pitkeathley, Chair, New Opportunities Fund
>
>Followed by PHOTO/FILM OPPORTUNITY
>10.30 Digitopolis, 2nd Floor, the Science Museum
>(details on page 3)
>* A range of award recipients will attend and are available for
>interview.
>
>£50 million in awards to more than 150 UK national and local organisations
>creating a 'communities bank' of internet learning resources is being
>announced by the New Opportunities Fund, a lottery 'good cause'
distributor,
>at the Science Museum, London, on 2nd July.
>
>The Fund's multi-million announcement gives the green-light for the
>development of a swathe of online learning resources across the four
>nations, converting a wealth of UK achievement and heritage across science,
>culture and social diversity into digital format.
>
>Through the Digitisation awards by the Fund, people in every walk of life
in
>communties across the UK will be able to connect to almost limitless
>gigabytes of resources ranging from the treasure-store collections of
>leading museums, galleries and libraries to priceless archives of film and
>the arts. The funding will help give people access to the full tapestry of
>UK society, past and present, including skills and health sites, and even
>allowing people take virtual walks through local and national heritage
>locations.
>
>The Fund's Digitisation Awards for the creation of web content will allow
>individuals, groups, schools and library-users to link up to the new wave
of
>internet facilities. UKonline learning centres and public libraries
>supported by the New Opportunities Fund's Community Access to Lifelong
>Learning programme and its People's Network funding programme, totalling
>£300 million (see Editor's Notes p.4), are already improving equality of
>access to online learning resources.
>
>Over the coming months, organisations large and small will use the awards
to
>make their contribution to a bank of internet learning resources
>encompassing the breadth of life in the UK. The Fund has encouraged the
>development of a consortium approach, so that many awards are going to
>partnerships working together on themed content.
>
>Among the schemes given the green light today are major partnership
projects
>on archaeology, citizenship across the ages, science, invention and nature.
>There is a wealth of material covering film and newsreel, music, art,
>environment, and genealogy. Other projects will provide advice, and skills
>development, and 'sense of place' sites focusing on local identity and
>achievements and resources.
>
>A consortium led by the Science Museum in London is among the awards
>announced today at the museum by the Fund's Chair, Baroness Jill
>Pitkeathley:
>
>"The New Opportunities Fund Digitisation awards will fuel the learning
>revolution for millions of people across the UK. They will also play a
role
>globally in showing the richness and diversity of our society and exemplify
>what can be achieved by working in partnership."
>
>She added: "Whether you live in a former coalfield community in Wales, a
>rural area in Scotland or Northern Ireland, or an urban centre in England,
>the New Opportunities Fund programme will ensure a wide range of national,
>regional and local knowledge is at your fingertips. These projects will
>become passports to online learning and schools of excellence."
>
>Minister of State for the Arts, Baroness Blackstone, welcomed the
>announcement:
>" The combination of high quality content and innovative technology
>represented by the Digitisation awards is very impressive. Good learning
>materials must be available to Internet users, including those taking
>advantage of the UK online Learning Centre facilities. These are being
>installed in public libraries and elsewhere through the New Opportunities
>Fund's Community Access to Lifelong Learning Programme.
>
>" The Fund's Digitisation programme will help to generate an invaluable
>information bank, spanning arts and culture, community information and
>materials to support basic skills."
>
>Stephen Dunmore, Chief Executive of the Fund, said:
>
>"Through the Fund's family of learning programmes, we have been able to
play
>our part in extending access to information and communications technology
>(ICT), complementing other strategies aimed at closing the gap between the
>haves and have-nots of the computer age, and opening up resources to those
>with special needs."
>
>He added: "The Fund's programme for Community Access to Lifelong Learning
is
>ensuring the success of 'drop-in' local computer centres with grants to
help
>the centres provide an open-door for the computer 'have-nots'. Through the
>People's Network, libraries across the country are getting the computer
>capacity and know-how to give people opportunities for lifelong learning.
>
>These funding programmes are already connecting up communities to the
>tremendous potential of computers and the internet by delivering the
>computer hardware, access and training. Now it is time to begin delivering
>this virtual resource bank of content people can reach into and improve and
>enrich their learning journey."
>
>The Director of the Science Museum, Lindsay Sharp, said: "The hosting of
the
>awards announcement at the Science Museum is very significant for us. We
>delighted that the consortium we have led on Science, Invention and Nature
>is sharing in today's awards. This programme and our award within it, will
>provide an opportunity for the UK and the Science Museum to be at the
>forefront of the learning revolution in the 21st century."
>
>Lord Evans, Chairman of Resource, The Council for Museums, Archives and
>Libraries, welcomed the announcement of the Fund's digitisation grants:
>"This is a key moment for the People's Network project as it secures a flow
>of rich and imaginative electronic learning materials for UK public
>libraries reflecting our cultural heritage and community wealth and
>diversity. I congratulate all recipients. Resource is pleased to have
been
>able to contribute its knowledge of the information sector and technical
>expertise to the assessment process and looks forward to a continuing
>partnership as the programme develops."
>Ends/
>
> ADVISORY NOTE : FILM AND PHOTO EDITORS
>
>FILM / PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
>10.30 to 11.00hrs Digitopolis Gallery
> 2nd Floor, the Science Museum
>
>* Baroness Blackstone and Baroness Pitkeathley and children from
>Rosetta
>* Primary School, Newham, London, who are benefiting from
>a summer
>* learning grant by the New Opportunities Fund (Out of
>School Hours
>* Learning programme) involving ICT (Information and
>Communications
>* Technology).
>*
>* 'Living' interactive works of art.
>
>
>Notes to Editors:
>1. The £50 million nof-digitise programme was launched in August 1999 to
put
>information that supports lifelong learning into digitised form. Details on
>www.nof.digitise.org . It supports the digitisation of material
>in three areas:
>Citizenship in a modern state: This covers information that helps people to
>access services, including information on rights and obligations and how to
>be effective in dealing with different organisations.
>Cultural enrichment: Material that reflects the heritage of a community,
>region or a country, or embodies an aspect of identity. It will also
include
>different forms of art such as fine or performing arts, design or media.
>Reskilling the nation: Including helping people to enhance basic literacy
>skills to improving understanding of other forms of information such as
>science, health and IT.
>
>2. About the New Opportunities Fund:
>The New Opportunities Fund distributes National Lottery money to health,
>education and environment projects across the UK. We intend to support
>sustainable projects that will:
>* Improve the quality of life of people throughout the UK
>* Address the needs of those who are most disadvantaged in society
>* Encourage community participation
>* Complement relevant local and national strategies and programmes.
>
>Funding for programmes is divided between England, Scotland, Northern
>Ireland and Wales on the basis of population weighted to reflect levels of
>deprivation.
>
>3. NEW OPPORTUNITIES FUND COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMMES ACROSS THE UK
>
>COMMUNITY ACCESS TO LIFELONG LEARNING - £200 million
>To help close the gap between the computer haves and the have nots. It will
>enable many more adults to access ICT learning opportunities. The programme
>will support the development and running of a network of learning centres
>(ICT) with online computer access to information and community resources.
>£100m has been set apart for the People's Network which is putting computer
>technology into public libraries. The People's Network is a comprehensive
>programme of public ICT provision co-ordinated by Resource: The Council for
>Museums, Archives and Libraries, a strategic agency working with museums,
>archives and libraries. Resource has three main objectives, to provide
>strategy, advocacy and advice. The organisation undertakes work in all
three
>of these areas to improve the context in which museums, archives and
>libraries operate and to improve services for users and potential users.
>Resource provides expert advice and guidance on the development and
>implementation of the New Opportunities Fund Digitisation of Learning
>Materials Programme as part of its work with the Fund on the management of
>the People's Network project. For further information on Resource visit the
>website at http://www.resource.gov.uk or contact Emma Wright, Press
Officer,
>on 020 7273 1459.
>
>OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS LEARNING - £205 million
>Is available to create and develop regular out of school hours learning
>activities involving half of all secondary and special schools and a
quarter
>of all primary schools around the school day, weekends and in the holidays.
>£25 million has been specifically dedicated to creating new summer school
>places for 250,000 pupils. The Fund gives priority to projects which
>address the needs of the most disadvantaged pupils. The programme is closed
>for applications except for summer schools which are due in by 3 September
>2001
>
>ICT TRAINING
>* £230 million for ICT training for teachers and school librarians
>* £20 million for ICT training for public library staff
>
>NOF-DIGITISE
>£50 million to put information that supports lifelong learning into
>digitised form. Details on www.nof-digitise.org
>
> Full details of the grant awards announced today are available on
>the
> New Opportunities Fund's dedicated website www.nof-digitise.org
> at 10.30 hrs 2nd July 2001
>
> Other grant and programme information is available on
www.nof.org.uk
>
>New Opportunities Fund Press office: 020 7211 1888
>Mobile for this release: 07867 500 572
>Public Enquiries Line: 0845 0000 121
>
>
>Issued 28 June 2001
> PN 01-06-36
>
>
>
>
>Emma Wright
>Press Officer
>Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
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>
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David Dawson
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Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
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