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Abstract illustration of a facilitator leading a community digital-literacy workshop with a presentation board, villagers gathered around, huts and fields in the background

An Initiative by Studio 1947

Community Workshops.

Free, hands-on workshops we run with local communities, building practical digital skills people can put to use the same week.

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The Workshops We Do

Digital Literacy

The basics done properly: using a smartphone with confidence, getting online safely, and handling everyday apps and services without having to ask someone else to do it for you.

Digital Marketing Basics

For local shopkeepers and small business owners: setting up a business page, taking better product photos, and using WhatsApp and Instagram to reach customers directly.

Design Thinking Workshop

A hands-on introduction to solving real problems: how to spot what's actually wrong, sketch ideas fast, and test them with the people they're for. No design background needed.

AI and Life

What AI actually is, where it already shows up in daily life, how to use it sensibly, cutting through both the hype and the fear, and what it means for society and communities like ours.

Photography & Content Basics

Taking product and portrait shots that actually sell, with just a phone: framing, light, and turning a handful of photos into posts people stop to look at.

Branding & Storytelling Basics

Shaping a name, a look and a story a small business can actually repeat: a simple logo mark, consistent colours, and how to talk about what makes the business worth choosing.

Digital Literacy Marketing Basics Design Thinking AI Awareness Problem-Solving Teamwork Communication Photography Branding

In Detail

What we cover, and what you’ll walk away with.

Digital Literacy

What we cover

  • Setting up and securing a smartphone and its accounts
  • Spotting scams, fake links and phishing messages
  • Everyday apps: payments, forms, maps and messaging

What you'll achieve

  • Confidence to use a phone without asking someone else
  • A safer, better-organised set of accounts and apps

Digital Marketing Basics

What we cover

  • Setting up a WhatsApp Business or Instagram business page
  • Writing simple posts and offers that get replies
  • Reading basic insights to see what's actually working

What you'll achieve

  • A live business page ready to take orders and enquiries
  • A simple weekly posting habit you can keep up alone

Design Thinking Workshop

What we cover

  • Spotting the real problem behind a complaint or a habit
  • Sketching and testing quick, low-cost ideas
  • Getting honest feedback from the people you're solving for

What you'll achieve

  • A repeatable way to work through any local problem
  • One tested idea you can act on immediately

AI and Life

What we cover

  • What AI tools actually do, in plain language
  • Where AI already helps with study, work and daily tasks
  • Its limits, and how to check its answers before trusting them
  • AI and social impact: jobs, misinformation and access in communities like ours

What you'll achieve

  • Practical, everyday use of one or two AI tools
  • A clear-eyed sense of what AI can and can't do for you
  • An informed view of AI's wider effect on society, not just on you

Photography & Content Basics

What we cover

  • Framing, light and background with just a phone camera
  • Shooting product, portrait and short video content
  • Simple free editing tools to clean up and crop a shot

What you'll achieve

  • A small library of usable photos and clips for your page
  • An eye for what makes a shot worth posting

Branding & Storytelling Basics

What we cover

  • Naming, a simple logo mark and a consistent colour palette
  • Writing a short, honest story about the business
  • Keeping that look and story consistent everywhere

What you'll achieve

  • A basic brand kit: name, mark, colours and one-line story
  • A clearer answer to "why should I choose you?"

Who It's For

Built for the community, not around it.

These sessions are for whoever shows up: students figuring out their next step, shopkeepers wanting more customers, homemakers picking up a smartphone with confidence for the first time, and anyone curious about what AI actually means for them. No fee, no prerequisites, no assumption that you already know the basics.

The impact is meant to be immediate and local: a skill you can use the same week, a business that reaches a few more customers, a household that's a little less dependent on someone else to get online. Small, practical wins, in the community they're run in.

Rooted in Local Wisdom

Bring a workshop to your community.

These sessions are free and built for the community they're run in. If your village, school or business group wants one, get in touch.

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