Sarah Close, Edward Brown and Tim Brown
YORKSHIRE Dales residents have been taking part in a project to improve connectivity in their communities.
Residents within the North end of Coverdale have been informing Mobile Access North Yorkshire – a £6.4million Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Rural Connected Communities project.
Over the past few months, the project has engaged with a wide variety of community members to understand their current experiences of connectivity within the area, whilst gaining knowledge about their hopes and expectations. This has informed the project ensuring that the technical solutions proposed are right.
The engagement process has included several themes: community engagement and parish council meetings as well as one to one research interviews, as part of an independent study undertaken by Lancaster University Management School.