The Tech Partnership and Lloyds Banking Group have today launched a consultation on updating the Basic Digital Skills framework. Created in 2015 by Go ON UK, working with a wide range of partners from education, the public, private and third …
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 …
Navroza Ladha is Deputy Director for Digital Skills and Inclusion. Here, in her first post for the blog, she talks about a joined up approach to digital skills and inclusion.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …