These activities of good practices are addressed to structure who want to propose digital workshop for their beneficiaries. Such as: municipality, an association, a structure or a citizen involved in local activities, in contact with people aged 60 and over.
Cybernadette is an opportunity for seniors, parents or grandparents, to familiarize themselves with “cyberspace”, i.e. the Internet, online procedures, but also the digital tools and applications of everyday life.
This is an initiative of “Media-cité” which, by offering free and friendly workshops on digital tools and uses to people over 60, aims to work towards the digital inclusion of seniors.
13% of French people say they never go online, 66% of them are over 65. To tackle this problem, there are digital support centres in the regions, but…
– They are sometimes poorly identified by seniors
– The offers are not really aimed at them but rather concern prevention actions for young people; this leaves few opportunities for seniors to take advantage of modern technologies.
With the digitalisation of our society, there is a risk of digital insecurity. The age factor is discriminating. It is (along with the level of education, income, and rurality) one of the factors that most strongly influence the digital autonomy of people. The senior public is thus very exposed to digital exclusion. As for those who are “connected”, there is a need for preventive information to avoid potential risks and to control the information they publish about themselves and their family.
The project is addressed to municipality, association, structure or a citizen involved in local activities, in contact with people aged 60 and over.
Cybernadette offers a complete programme to help people over 60 to become more independent and to master digital tools.
The project helps the structure to:
The workshops are free of charge, both for the host and for the public. They organise the implementation jointly with the host organization and then they run the workshop, bringing the necessary equipment (tablets, Wifi router, teaching aids)
It is collective workshops; 10 people for the practical workshops, 20 for the debate workshops, and last 1:30. The spirit of the workshops is “digital without the headaches and with snacks”. Indeed, each workshop is followed by a convivial moment around a glass of friendship, to extend the exchanges.
Cybernadette is an offer of actions adapted to seniors, to their rhythms, to their schedules, on the subjects which concern them, according to attractive formats of intervention, with clear and simple access supports, listening to their needs on the daily digital life and close to their home in places which they will be able to continue to frequent.
There are 3 different formats:
And 5 different themes:
There is also a focus on raising awareness of security issues, use of personal data, misinformations…
The validation process is done at the end of each workshop proposed by an evaluation to be filled by participants.
This workshop offer activities adapted to seniors, to their pace, to their schedules, on the subjects that concern them, according to attractive formats, with clear and easy-to-access materials, attentive to their needs in terms of everyday digital life, and close to their homes in places they can continue to frequent.
It allows to:
This good practice contribute to an innovation in the livelihood of the erderly for many reasons and the key success factors are:
The advantages of this practice and of the cybernadette proposals is the free aspect, accessible to all, a complete offer, adapted according to the needs.
Cybernadette can easily be sustainable, indeed it has been stopped because of covid. The project needs to create local partners and a solid base for local deployment.
It needs a structured dissemination strategy because this service is accessible to all and co-funded by public ressources.
This project could be deployed on a wider level. However, it needs a lot of resources to create such workshops. Replicability mean that it would need to provide human, technological and material resources to set up the workshops throughout the territory.
Participants are asking for more Cybernadette sessions. Sessions which correspond perfectly to the needs of practical use, indispensable in our increasingly digital world. Efficient, user-friendly, accessible to all, these are the spontaneous comments at the end of a workshops session.
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