Smartphones and people with disabilities: the power and the promise

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...
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...
...being online - this is digital inclusion support. Research shows that there are four key barriers: skills, access, motivation and trust - what this means for each service will vary...
A few weeks ago, members of the GDS Digital Inclusion and Assisted Digital team visited Castle House, a sheltered housing scheme that serves elderly and vulnerable people in Lambeth where they have created a “digital community”. The aim was to …
...search for jobs. He also uses google maps to work out where potential jobs are and how to get to interviews. He says it’s “better to be here than at...