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.
Craig Hurring is Director of Communications at The Tech Partnership. Here he tells us about one of their important products. As any Game of Thrones fan will tell you, there’s a reason its introductory title sequence is so popular – everyone …
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.
Verity Baum works as an IT Trainer with Cosmic and she tells us about her experience working with Yarlington Housing Group. Cosmic are Yarlington’s official IT training partner and have developed a very strong and trusted relationship in this work. I …
In April last year, the Government committed to supporting anyone looking to develop their digital skills to help them get online and make the most of the benefits. It’s a big challenge and one that requires close work with external …
The Government’s Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out how we will work to reduce the number of people without basic digital skills and capabilities by a quarter by 2016. We know we can’t achieve this goal alone: the cornerstone of our …
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 …
We’ve recently established a Digital Inclusion Charter Signatories group on digitaskills.com. The website was created by Go ON UK, the UK’s digital skills alliance, to provide a platform for asking questions, accessing resources for digital skills, and includes an interactive …
The Government’s Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out how we will work to reduce the number of people without basic digital skills and capabilities by a quarter by 2016. We know we can’t achieve this goal alone: the cornerstone of our …
