Published on October 9, 2007
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Digital Explorer is now incorporated as a Community Interest Company. We join the growing ranks of social enterprises in the UK, which famously include Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant and the Oxo Tower.
Each proposed Community Interest Company must demonstrate that its operations are in the public good and show how its assets and profits will be used to benefit the community.
It’s very important that Digital Explorer is a social enterprise and that we work with our partners and sponsors to ensure that all our work goes to helping young people learn more about the world around them, have their own voice heard and work together to create a better future.
Our main activities listed with the Community Interest Company Regulator are:
- Set up a global network of digital youth expeditions that will change the way that young people feel about their community
- Train pupils, teachers, NGOs and expeditions in digital communications
Any surplus that we generate will be used to subsidize our work with schools and charities.
Olympus is supporting Digital Explorer’s Google Earth training by providing the latest model from the Olympus TOUGH range for the practical sessions of the course. The Olympus ยต790 SW is the ideal camera for fieldwork and expedition use.
With 7.1 megapixels it produces high quality images that still look sharp, even when projected in the classroom. It is shockproof and waterproof, tough enough to put up with a life outdoors and most pupils. The camera also has internal focusing, meaning less chance of dust wrecking the lens action.
We are looking forward to using the camera in the field and in the classroom.
The Digital Explorer - Offscreen Education collaboration for the Offscreen Student Expedition won the Best Blog in the 2007 Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards.
The judges commented that the site was a “Fabulous idea! I can see the possibilities this opportunity can open up to the communities all over the world.”
So many congratulations to the team involved: Ciara, Chris, John, Rick and Marjan!
Marjan is just back from Antarctica, helping the IAE5 expedition. The Inspire Antarctic Expedition 5 saw 60 participants help to inaugurate an Education Base on the Antarctic Peninsula under the leadeship of Robert Swan.
Read more of Marjan’s experiences.
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