Head of the Digital Skills Partnership.
Digital & Tech Policy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
We’ve been asking for feedback on the Evaluate IT Toolkit which helps organisations measure the impact of their digital engagement activity. It’s been great to get lots of views and suggestions and we’re already taking some of what you said …
Mark Hatton works for Business Transformation Group at the Department for Work and Pensions. Here he tells us about how people in his department have been taking up the Digital Friends initiative. We’re transforming DWP to be a modern, efficient …
Since its conception back in 2014, a focus for our Digital Engagement (formerly inclusion) Research Working Group has been to understand and develop the ways that digital engagement is measured and recorded in the UK. To help address this, the …
The Digital Engagement online dashboard is now on the GOV.UK performance platform. Here’s what it is, why and how it was developed and how we’ll be iterating it. The government's cross-sector Digital Engagement Research Working Group has developed this new …
We are almost halfway through our six month Outcomes Framework and Evaluation Toolkit pilot process. Following our workshop in October, seven organisations signed up to use and test the Evaluation Toolkit to evaluate their own digital engagement projects. We’ve …
Are older people at risk of missing out? James Nazroo and Katey Matthews from the University of Manchester tell us about their report: Digital Engagement in Later Life. The Government's 2014 strategy for digital engagement reported that 69% of those …
The Cabinet Office actively promotes opportunities for its staff to help schemes make a real difference to the public whilst strengthening its wider mission. Here, Chad Bond, Service Manager at the Government Digital Service tells us about one such scheme: …
A new home At the end of last year, the Digital Inclusion team was welcomed into the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as part of the Digital Economy Unit. The move further strengthens our focus on the digital economy. …
Back in January we held the first of 2015’s two Digital Inclusion Forums where we ran a number of sessions aimed at kickstarting collaborations between stakeholders. This succeeded in getting some great projects off the ground, but here we’re going …
Nathanael Jones, Digital Assurance and Compliance manager at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), tells us about engaging staff in sharing digital skills. In March this year the Digital Publishing division within ONS began a pilot exercise in partnership …