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Culture Online
Culture Online set out to build a digital bridge between learning and culture. Between 2002-2007, Culture Online picked up 25 major awards and reached more than 15.5 million people through its websites and outreach programmes.
Working in partnership with more than 50 organisations, Culture Online used innovative technology to reach new audiences for the arts, with a particular emphasis on engaging hard-to-reach groups.
Projects ranged from largescale public engagement websites, such as Icons, which attracted more than a million unique visitors in its first year, to The Transporters, an interactive DVD that helps children with autism learn about emotions.
Culture Online aimed to:
- enhance access to the arts for children and young people and give them the opportunity to develop their talents to the full;
- open up our cultural institutions to the wider community, to promote lifelong learning and social cohesion;
- extend the reach of new technologies and build IT skills;
- support wider and richer engagement and learning by all adults;
- promote good practice within the industry and within the public sector in regards to commissioning, process, usability and accessibility.
Culture Online's last website ProjectsETC shares lessons learned about creating great digital projects in the overlapping areas of Education, Technology and Culture.
The information-sharing site can be viewed at www.projectsetc.org.