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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

The BBC has launched its Make it Digital season with a website that it hopes will turn its audience into digital makers [bbc.com].

It is part of a nationwide push to increase digital skills in the UK.

The mixital website offers people the chance to create a range of content from popular BBC brands such as Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who and EastEnders.
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"We are handing over creativity tools and BBC assets to the audience, and they can make their own BBC," he said.

The project grew out of a game-making tool developed for the programme Technobabble, which attracted huge interest from its audience of under-12s.

"Youngsters made 250,000 games. We were bowled over and felt it proved that young people have a great appetite for making things digitally," said Mr Wilson.

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