Today celebrates one year since the opening of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. With that, it gives us a chance to reflect on what we’ve achieved during the delivery of the Digital Commonwealth project – and we’ve managed to produce from what we’ve gathered and learned since the Games concluded last year.
We’ve worked with schools and communities groups from all across Scotland, using the hook of Glasgow 2014 as a context to help develop and support the practice of digital storytelling as a tool for empowering communities to use their own voice to tell their own stories online.
From each of the project elements (schools, community media, creative voices and #citizen2014) we’ve developed a creative output that gathers the learning, the creativity and the delivery processes in one place to capture the project in the form of a memory box, offering a reflective legacy from the work produced by all the participants taking part.
The project has been captured in the Digital Commonwealth documentary, produced and edited by Peter Murray from the Media Trust (one of our delivery partners). The documentary provides an overview of the project, what we did but importantly the r
