Research and Insights Directory
DPA Directory: for research and insights
Welcome to the DPA Research and Insight directory. This page is designed to be a central respository to the latest reports and insights for practitioners and policy-makers.
Our Research Directory is currently being updated. If you can’t access an item, please refer back later.
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Covid-19 and the digital divide 50-70yr olds
How did the pandemic effect the digital experiences of older adults (50-70) and organisations supporting them?
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Tech4PrisonLeavers white paper
The Tech4Prisonleavers project was created in 2021, in part a reaction to the changing landscape of support and employment caused by the push to digital services during the pandemic.
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Tech4Teachers White Paper
Tech4Teachers white paper based on the innovative ‘proof of concept’ project to provide teachers with laptops and digital skills.
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Digital Poverty in the UK: A socio-economic assessment of the implications of digital poverty in the UK.
Prepared by Deloitte for the DPA, this report will help improve the wider public’s understanding of digital poverty.
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Tech4Schools Evaluation
The role and importance of digital technologies for supporting learning in educational settings has been clearly identified such that “learning facilitated and supported by digital technologies, is seen as an…
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Ofcom communications affordability tracker
Ofcom regularly monitors people’s experience of communications services. This summary sets out the findings from our latest research into the affordability of home broadband, mobile phone, landline and pay-TV services.
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Circular electronics for social good: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide
Research on the key barriers and enablers that businesses have when looking at the end-of-life of their IT equipment.
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Digital inclusion for ethnic, elderly and disabled populations is key for social inclusion
How can we include vulnerable populations in the digital domain and make sense of their cultural and social specificities?
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Bridging the Gap
The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) launched the Bridging the Gap Report, highlighting the need for greater international, multilateral cooperation to close the digital divide and ensure all nations can benefit…
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Investigating how the interaction between individual andcircumstantial determinants influence the emergence ofdigital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families withchildren in England
This paper explores Digital Poverty (DP) in England by adopting the DP Alliance’s theoretical framework
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Local communities and the internet ecosystem: Scaling solutions to data poverty in the UK
Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Kat Dixon, this report invites us to question the internet’s role in society, the potential for future technologies, and the necessity of community design…
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Understanding Digital Poverty and Inequality in the UK
As digital technology has become increasingly integrated with modern life, the ability to digitally engage has become more and more essential to interacting fully with society and the economy.
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Data Poverty APPG State of the Nation report
This report aims to give the first state of the nation perspective on data poverty and what needs to be done to eradicate it in the UK.
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Digital Poverty in the UK
As every aspect of life – from job seeking to health care – moves online, digital connectivity is a daily necessity, not a luxury. Against the backdrop of the UK’s…
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UK Digital Poverty Evidence Review 2022
This report is a landscape review of the qualitative and quantitative evidence around digital poverty, digital inequality, and digital exclusion/inclusion that has emerged in roughly the last decade.