By Jon Rouse, Director General, Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships. Just before Christmas I was asked if I would become a Whitehall champion for Digital Inclusion. It was an easy request to say ‘yes’ to. In my role as …
When we published the Digital Inclusion Strategy back in April last year, we set ourselves the target of reducing the number of people that lack basic digital skills by 25% by 2016. The strategy commits departments to a number of …
We know that there’s a huge amount of great DI activity taking place up and down the country, being taken forward by public, private and voluntary sector organisations alike. We try to get out and see good examples of this …
As we’ve discussed in previous posts, the GDS Digital Inclusion team and our partners are directing a lot of our energy at building a segmented understanding of who is digitally excluded, where and why, to ensure that we target resources …
In April last year, the Government committed to supporting anyone looking to develop their digital skills to help them get online and make the most of the benefits. It’s a big challenge and one that requires close work with external …
The Government’s Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out how we will work to reduce the number of people without basic digital skills and capabilities by a quarter by 2016. We know we can’t achieve this goal alone: the cornerstone of our …
Our last research blog looked at the ‘what’ of digital inclusion, considering a range of measures that can enable us to meaningfully track progress and assess the impact of our activities. Measuring digital inclusion in the general population is, of course, …
The Digital Inclusion Strategy action plan makes a commitment to conduct research to understand where and how to target our digital inclusion efforts, with Action 10 stating that government will ‘use data to measure performance and improve what we do’. …
In April 2014, we launched the UK Digital Inclusion Strategy to ensure that everyone in the UK has the digital skills and capabilities to take full advantage of being online. We’re working with over 60 partners across public, private, and …
As more services become digital by default, support needs to be in place for those people who cannot use them independently. 11m people in the UK currently lack digital skills and can’t use digital government services independently. Government will always …