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Café Connect - our most ambitious community cafe programme yet. Ten talks; ten days; Some of the hardest to reach parts of Scotland.
Café Connect aims to nurture community science events in informal, varied and interactive settings to examine the ways technology can aid rural life. It is the most ambitious addition to the University’s popular Café Scientifique programme yet, in which leading figures from science and medicine present their research to the public in a relaxed café setting. Cafe Connect kicks off in Orkney on Sunday July 3 with Birds, Bees and Digital Conservation by Dr Rene van der Wal who will ask whether technology can bring people closer to their local environment. At the Pottery and Tea Room in Knoydart, Inverness-shire, on Thursday July 7, Professor Claire Wallace will discuss, among other things, rural business networks in a talk entitled Rural Futures: people + business + technology = sustainability. On Monday July 11, at the Craigmonie Centre, Drumnadrochit, Dr Lizzy Tait asks The Power of Social Media: Transformational tweeting or devaluation of democracy? which will look at the impact online technologies have and their use in politics. Café Connect’s tour will end on Tuesday July 12 at Bog Cotton Café in Cannich, Inverness-shire, with Rural Resilience: Community connections and technologies for tomorrow with Dr Sarah Skerratt who will look at ways rural communities can get access to better broadband and the benefits that could bring. The topics were chosen in conjunction with the local community via a representative of the community — a Café Champion. All events commence at 7pm unless otherwise stated and are free to attend.