CREATIVITY
UNLEASHED

Beatfreeks has teamed up with UK Youth to deliver Be Internet Citizens, an innovative training and resource programme for educators and youth workers – supported by Google.org and YouTube. This training event equips those who work directly with young people with the tools to teach them how to become safe users of the web, and encourage them to be positive voices online.

By now most of us have heard of the term, Fake News. Some of us may even be thinking about how we equip young people with the tools to navigate Fake News online. And for a select few, protecting young people from Fake News may be part of our duty of care; parents, teachers, youth workers. We see you.

90% of all jobs now require digital skills but how many of us have the skills required to fill those jobs? And if we don’t have the skills, how do we gain them? It’s no longer the case that you have to be a website designer, or similar, to be digitally capable. The influence of the internet is now seeping into most facets of our economy, and indeed the jobs that fill it.

Kick start your Thursday morning right. Join us for an entertaining and informative conversation that investigates the responsibility of Influencers as creators for change. We’ll be speaking with all round loved online commenter ‘Sideman’ who’s comedic eloquence continues to inspire a generation of critical freethinkers. Many of us feel a sense of moral obligation to speak out about injustice using our socials. We may feel more powerful knowing that we can raise awareness of issues through a simple Post, Tweet or DM. And by golly, do we feel like superheroes when that amounts to real life action being taken by brands, government and people.