Community Links Programme - creating opportunity for all

The DISC Programme was established in 1998 with the aim of achieving equality of access, opportunity and training to Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) across inner-city disadvantaged schools.

The DISC Programme operates in 38 inner-city disadvantaged primary and secondary schools. This involves the installation of computer resources in schools and implementing a programme of relevant teacher training to integrate the use of computers into the teaching/learning process in all curricular areas. To this end we have devised a number of programmes that help us to meet this objective and are applicable across all curricular areas. These programmes include the use of comic creation, clay animation, video production, class blogs, podcasting, video game making, 3d design and robotic Lego to capture the imagination and open up a world of possibilities for young people in Dublin inner-city schools.