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The Basic Digital Skills Framework is being updated - now’s your chance to have a say and shape its future.

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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 …

A newly improved Digital Inclusion Evaluation Toolkit

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 …

Smartphones and people with disabilities: the power and the promise

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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 …

Evaluate IT Toolkit: We've completed our pilot!

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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 …

The Evaluate IT Toolkit: What does everyone think?

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  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 …