Infotech Awareness

The Infotech Awareness Group

The ITAG was launched at the end of October 2009. Its purpose is to provide and share information and 'know-how' about computers and the Internet, and also emerging methods of telecomms which our members may encounter and need to work with.

Nowadays, access to computers and to the Internet can safely be said to be no longer a luxury. With more and more banks, businesses, airlines, and government agencies not only offering customer interaction on line, but now insisting on it (re HMR&C UK) everyone needs access as a standard utility of life.

We, the expatriate community, are in the main from earlier generations where life moved at a gentler pace. We communicated by writing letters to our friends and to people with whom we dealt for business, or, exceptionally, we telephoned them, but usually confirming decisions and agreements by letter.

Now, written communication is via email or by instant messaging, and spoken communication via internet telephone or "voice-over-IP" methods.

So it behoves us senior citizens (I am one !!) to learn more about how computers work, how to manipulate them, and how to use internet technology to contact our friends and to do business with the World.

Easier said than done, I hear you say - and I totally agree. But having had the advantage of being of a technical bent, I have been fortunate enough to be able to gain some knowledge and experience of information technology, and can pass on what I know - and there are others in the AFA similarly able to do so.

So we meet, once each month at present, now on the third Tuesday - afternoon - to discuss themes of interest or concern and to exchange information which is useful to our daily lives, especially here in France.

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