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The project was an initiative of a number of partners
across West Wales who haved decided that heritage
would be a lovely vehicle to use to deliver
some fun and informal digital training.
We've been engaging with this particular group at the Powerhouse in Pontwelly
by introducing them to a range of digital equipment
and by doing so we're working in different ways by either
teaching them how to use PCs in general
or by encouraging them to share important stories with us
so that we can them collate and document them digitally
in the hope that they will be happy to share those
on our website, called the People's Collection Wales.
I think we're particularly lucky that we live in a
small community here in West Wales, alot of people know Carys and myself
and I think that sometimes breaks down the first barrier,
where you can build up trust and confidence with
people that you're working with, so we're pretty much
over the first hurdle by the time they come to the classroom.
Then it's just a matter of building up even more confidence
between us so to encourage them to break away those fears
that they may have of using the PC for the first time.
We're currently on the look out for three prosective centres that we
can call digital stations because I really feel that we
leave a legacy of the work that's been created over
these months so that it carries on after the project has finished,
and by that I mean somewhere that people can come back to
and access all the work that's been documented, recorded,
put online and whatever.
If this project is successful it's the hope
of getting the funding they could then open the doors wider within Wales.
At the moment I'm concentrating on West Wales, the older counties.
Perhaps if it's successful we can then work anywhere within Wales,
continuing the work that will have been achieved by this project.