About digital engagement
The Lloyds Bank Consumer Digital Index is the largest measure of financial and digital capability of people in the UK, and now in its third year of publication. In this guest post, Nick Williams, MD of Consumer and Commercial Digital …
It’s Volunteers’ Week. This national event takes place 1-7 June every year. Claire Donaldson, Early Careers Policy and Engagement Strategy Lead for the Digital Skills and Inclusion team at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) explains why we should be celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.
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‘Ever wondered what people are doing on the internet all day?’ This tongue-in-cheek question, used to promote a Get Online Week event, touches on a serious point. Although 82% of the UK population go online every day, almost one in …
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 …
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 …
Last week we hosted the British Irish Council Digital Inclusion Work Sector to London.
Verity Baum works as an IT Trainer with Cosmic and she tells us about her experience working with Yarlington Housing Group. Cosmic are Yarlington’s official IT training partner and have developed a very strong and trusted relationship in this work. I …
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 …