Digital Skills and Inclusion
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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Part of our work here in the Digital Skills and Inclusion team is to work closely with the Department for Education (DfE) on policies that are particularly relevant to digital skills. We want to strengthen our collaboration, so we’ll be …
As the 2018 Charity Digital Skills Report is launched, its co-author, Zoe Amar talks about the importance of digital skills in the non-profit sector. What are the first things that come into your head if I say digital? Chances are …
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 …
Hi! My name is Ntima and I recently completed my internship at the Civil Service in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. I applied to the Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP) earlier this year. This 6-9 week programme …
When we launched the UK Digital Strategy in March, we said that we would establish a new Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) to bring greater coherence to provision of digital skills training at a national level, and to support local level …
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.
