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#DPIS21 Day 5: Beating the Barriers — Online Safety, Security and Accessibility
In September 2020 the Government announced a new National Data Strategy, which aspired to “make the UK the safest place in the world to go online.”
#DPIS21 Day 4: Education and the Digital Divide
“This is about the new normal,” declared a teachers’ union member at yesterday’s Digital Poverty and...
Taking positive action to eradicate the digital divide
The pandemic has had a huge impact on society and accelerated our transition to a digital world. Everything...
#DPIS21 Day 3: Research and Development – How Can the Tech Sector Drive Innovation in the UK Economy and Help Close the Digital Divide?
Both the title and discussion of yesterday’s installment of the Digital Poverty and Inequalities Summit left...
UK Digital Poverty Evidence Interim Review
The DPA Community Board believe that there has never been a more important time for an evidence-based,...
#DPIS21 Day 2: Data Poverty
If there is one digital exclusion issue that has been unprecedentedly spotlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is data poverty.
#DPIS21 Day 1: Digital Capability and Understanding – Digital skills in the workplace and the future of work
The future of work is digital, and the UK has some catching up to do if it aspires to a digitally capable workforce fit to meet that future.
Cross-party MP group to chair Digital Poverty & Inequalities Summit
Conservative MPs Damian Collins and Rt Hon Esther McVey along with Labour MPs Julie Elliott, Darren Jones,...
Everyone’s right to digital inclusion
"REMEMBER, remember the Fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot," goes the traditional rhyme. I...
“You’re on mute!”: Not just digital skills, but skills to thrive in a Digital Age
As a Youth Group Leader, we’re normally making campfires or baking treats together, so going online wasn’t...
