At Age & Opportunity, we're delighted to be involved with Socialcomputing.ie, a free website to assist people new to the internet. It's an easy-to-use index of popular Irish sites, such as newspapers, online banking and TV channels. It's particularly handy for someone who is unfamiliar with how to navigate the internet or someone who is only an occasional user, especially using a tablet computer.

Business in the Community Ireland initiated the project between Age & Opportunity, IBM volunteers, Active Retirement Ireland, Age Action, Third Age and the Older Women’s Network. Also, as part of the project, over 100 computers have also been supplied for refurbishment by other Business in the Community Ireland member companies to be given to local community groups.

NGOs that have assisted in the refurbishing side of the project are IASIO (Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders), FIT (Fast Track to IT) and Camara. Age & Opportunity has also run a pilot workshop with a number of prisoners around ageing issues. The first six computers have already been distributed to a group in Gorey along with webcams and headpieces donated by Logitech. The project was funded through grant funding from IBM.