EIT Health CARE Campus: a workshop for elderly care

May 19, 2016

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) addresses the issue of elderly care in a dedicated workshop called CARE Campus on May 25th and 26th 2016 in Strasbourg, France. EIT: developing and promoting European innovation The EIT is and independent organization of the European Union created in 2008 to support innovation and research throughout

Safer Internet Day: let’s create a better Internet together !

February 9, 2015

For the past 12 years, the world has been celebrating the Safer Internet Day on the second Tuesday of February. Initiated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network and supported by the European Commission, the SID focuses on eSafety for children and teenagers. Let’s create a better internet together Each and every year, the event has its own theme.

Communicate even more easily with relatives and friends on Hakisa.com

June 11, 2013

With the new features on Hakisa you can even more easily communicate with your relatives and share you passions with your friends! Here are some explanations of the new features: Write freehand or draw a picture for your relatives!  A new way to pimp your conversations: Young and old can now share their masterpieces with

The Safer Internet Day concerns every generation

February 5, 2013

  Since 2000, each year on the second day of the second week of the second month of the year, people around the world celebrate SID: the Safer Internet Day.  As new technology is getting more and more important in our daily lives, this day was made to promote safer and more responsible use of online

What’s the difference between senior computers and Hakisa?

February 4, 2013

Hakisa and computers especially designed for elderly have the same ambition: simplifying the internet to make it more accessible for beginners – but the solutions to achieve this ambition are completely different. In order to facilitate your choice, we made up some reasons that should convince you to use Hakisa.  First of all: Hakisa is Totally

10 Tips for the Awkward Age of Computing (part 2 of 2)

January 2, 2013

As promised in the previous post, here are the 5 followingTips for the Awkward Age of Computing. We hope that those tips will help you in your way of how to counter the effects of aging to make your computer more comfortable to use. Remeber that Microsoft provides even more tips for people with age-related

10 tips for the Awkward Age of Computing (part 1 of 2)

December 30, 2012

The older you get, the more you may struggle with the use of a computer. Sooner or later we all experience some loss of vision, hearing, or physical dexterity. Fortunately, personalization options in Windows make it easy to adjust your PC. As a lot of the Hakisa community members are Windows users, we decided to

What is a Musher on Hakisa?

August 9, 2012

Based on the intergenerational help, Hakisas goal is to simplify and personalize the use of the Internet in order to make it more accessible for seniors and beginners. On Hakisa a person who helps a user on the platform is called “Musher”. Become a Musher on Hakisa and help your loved ones to use the