Digital Friends
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 …
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 …
Matt Hancock, Minister for Digital and Culture, showed his support for Get Online Week today. Chris Andersson of Tinder Foundation tells us what it’s all about. Today sees the launch of Get Online Week 2016, the UK’s largest digital skills …
Rob Lindsay is Director of one of our partner organisations, Invisinet, who provide Wifi networks for homes and businesses. Here he tells us about some projects they've been running in rural areas. Since the start of the year, we’ve been …
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 …
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: …
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 …
Yesterday marked the start of National Inclusion Week 2015. We’ve been thinking about some of the great work our partners do to give everyone in the workplace and beyond the same opportunities to access the internet and learn basic digital …
We’ve been busy over the last few months building up support for our ‘Digital Friends’ initiative.