Head of the Digital Skills Partnership.
Digital & Tech Policy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Craig Hurring is Director of Communications at The Tech Partnership. Here he tells us about one of their important products. As any Game of Thrones fan will tell you, there’s a reason its introductory title sequence is so popular – everyone …
When we launched the UK Digital Strategy in March, we said that we would establish a new Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) to bring greater coherence to provision of digital skills training at a national level, and to support local level …
In 2015 we published a digital inclusion evaluation toolkit (“Evaluate IT”). Since then, the team has worked with members of the Digital Inclusion Research and Evaluation Working Group, organisations in local government, the charity sector and housing associations, to test …
Robin Christopherson MBE is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet, a UK charity that helps older people and disabled people of all ages use computers and the internet. Here he shares his experience of how advances in technology have improved his daily …
Laura Warren works in the Markets & Consumer Policy team within the Digital Economy Unit at the Department for Culture Media and Sport. In the third of our posts supporting Get Online Week, she tells us about her experience as …
Simon Leeming, Policy Manager in the Digital Inclusion team at the Department for Culture Media and Sport, on civil servants supporting Get Online Week. I was delighted to speak at the Cabinet Office yesterday, where civil servants gathered to support …
Matt Hancock, Minister for Digital and Culture, showed his support for Get Online Week today. Chris Andersson of Tinder Foundation tells us what it’s all about. Today sees the launch of Get Online Week 2016, the UK’s largest digital skills …
Julia Churchill-Angus on further progress: In October last year, we launched a 6 month pilot of our Digital Inclusion Outcomes Framework Evaluate IT Toolkit. I’ve been blogging at intervals throughout the process to keep you up to date with our …
Michelle Ovens MBE is Director of Do It Digital. Here she tells us how the campaign is helping small businesses make the most of the internet: When we talk about digital engagement, it can mean all manner of things. For …
Rob Lindsay is Director of one of our partner organisations, Invisinet, who provide Wifi networks for homes and businesses. Here he tells us about some projects they've been running in rural areas. Since the start of the year, we’ve been …