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 …
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 know that there’s a huge amount of great DI activity taking place up and down the country, being taken forward by public, private and voluntary sector organisations alike. We try to get out and see good examples of this …
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 …
Today I spoke at the Lambeth Digital Inclusion Conference and it was a great opportunity to meet practitioners and hear about what’s happening to reduce digital exclusion across communities. The work that Lambeth has carried out around their communities is …
If you read our latest post, you’ll know that recently we have been doing a lot of interesting work around the relationship between digital inclusion and public libraries. As part of this, we thought it would be really helpful to …
Recently, we’ve been looking closely at links between digital inclusion and libraries. To help us understand a little bit more, we hosted an ad hoc workshop which brought together our charter signatories and representatives from organisations such as Samsung and …
We’ve had a great response to our digital inclusion checklist blog and would like to say a big thank you to all who contributed. We’ve summarised the important themes below, as well as sharing a brief description of our visit …
The Digital Inclusion team recently visited the Mercy Foundation, a brilliant social charity organisation in Battersea. This was our first ever visit to a community centre where we met some incredible people and learnt more about the great digital inclusion …