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ALISON free interactive on-line learning for the workplace continues to grow rapidly with the launch of the global IT Skills Certification. This free and self-certifiable IT skills training now available to everyone. The certification can be achieved via the study of highly-interactive multimedia courseware which is freely accessible for study by anyone once they are a registered learner with ALISON. 

Whether you are completely new to computers or possesses some basic computing skills, the ALISON ABC IT offers full citizenship of the ‘Digital World’. ABC stands for ALISON Basic Computing.

If you are responsible for managing learning or training within an organization. ALISON MANAGER is an excellent way to introduce staff to the benefits of eLearning.

ALISON MANAGER is a complete, secure, web-based monitoring and reporting system for tracking all of your learners’ activity on the courses you have selected for them. This offers all of the benefits of a Learning Management System (LMS), but at a fraction of the costs usually associated with such systems. Find out more by emailing hhannant@alison.com quoting GB310627

ALISON ABC IT Certification is revolutionary. It is comprehensive, free, self-certifiable, and always current.  It covers not only conceptual understanding of IT and desktop applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheets, but also the full range of practical skills required to be fully IT literate, including touch typing and the efficient use of Web-based e-mail.

The learning is self-certifiable through the ALISON Web site, with a requirement of a 75% test score averaged across all lessons. The touch typing module must also be completed for the certification to be awarded.

ABC IT-1 (Basic Concepts)

Introduces the learner to the basic concepts of computing and teaches how computing can be an everyday feature of life and work. In this module, learners are introduced to computer hardware and software for the first time and also taught the key concepts of the IT world.

ABC IT-2 (Applications)

Introduces the learner to the Microsoft Office 2003 application suite, the most commonly used office-software application package worldwide. This suite includes MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

ABC IT-3 (Practical Skills)

Explores the practical elements of computing. IT-3 covers three important elements of computing namely: basic touch typing, using and setting up a Webmail address, and desktop ergonomics, which teaches how best to organize one’s working environment for safe use.

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The Guardian are to be congratulated on their continuing series of public debates exploring issues of communication and connections between the state and it’s citizens. The format of presentations followed by questions and answers encourages lively discussion and debate and a range of , sometimes radical, perspectives.

Connecting to citizens in a consumer age.
Thursday September 25 2008, 6pm-9pm RIBA, Portland Place, London.

Special guest speaker Alexis Cleveland, the director general for transformational government at the Cabinet Office.

I attended the last debate which was both stimulating and challenging and I would recommend booking a place. How do we translate the vision behind words such as transformational, personalization and engagement into meaningful actions that will make a real difference to the quality of life we all experience? When using state services are we consumers, clients, customers or service users? Do we have different expectations of different public services especially if they are “free” at the point of delivery? The evening is free to attend. To register your place please email gemma.dixon@guardian.co.uk

A word of advice, these events are booked out very quickly so, if you would like to attend book your place as soon as possible. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. The Guardian, With the help of their partners for the evening, A&T Kearney, will be looking at the issues surrounding how the public sector understands and responds to the needs of citizens.

Over the past two years, much progress has been made towards the ambitious vision set out in 2006 by Sir David Varney for a reform of public services with a focus on more personalized services and greater engagement with citizens. There is now greater choice for people and more involvement of citizens in reform. However, delivering some aspects of this vision has proved a challenge, particularly given difficulties in cross-government working and understanding customers’ needs.

We will examine some of the barriers that hinder change, including an apparent lack of confidence in government data handling, the challenges of developing joined-up services across central and local government, and building a more detailed understanding of customers’ needs.

Alexis Cleveland, director general for transformational government at the Cabinet Office , will be the  keynote speaker. She will be joined on the panel by Pat Harding, customer services director of Cambridgeshire county council, and Bernard Quinn, head of strategy and planning at NHS Direct. The evening will be conducted under the Chatham House rule, allowing a frank and unattributable exchange of views which will then form the basis for a report in the November edition of Public magazine.

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