Learning arising from One Digital projects
The golden thread of One Digital Today’s world is a digital world and those without the skills to participate in it are disadvantaged. Those disadvantages are multiple, sometimes complex and usually interrelated. Digital skills aren’t a thing you can learn once, like riding a bike; most people need ongoing support Read more…
The Citizens Online’s digital inclusion project in Brighton & Hove has been running for a couple of years now and provides a great illustration of how effective partnership working can enable an area to make significant progress in helping people to be digitally included. The network of partners involved is Read more…
I visited the Richmond Fellowship in County Durham recently and met with some of their staff Digital Champions to talk about how they are building digital inclusion and the development of digital skills within their project. The service provides support and housing to service users with a variety of mental Read more…
Great community based learning – visiting Clarion Futures The Community of Practice visit to the Clarion Futures community training centre based in Bow, London was a great opportunity to learn more about the work of the digital team at Clarion in general as well as to see directly how the Read more…
On Tuesday 27 April, One Digital held its event “Delivering sustainable digital skills support” at Friends House in London. This marked my fifth week as Programme Director for One Digital and my first ‘public appearance’, where I was delighted to introduce the event. In recent years I have been struck Read more…
2018 has started for the Community of Practice with visits to One Digital projects across the UK. These visits give us the chance to see in detail how work is developing to support Digital Champions. They also provide an in-depth opportunity to look at the varied types of engagement with Read more…
Last Wednesday I attended the second half of a training session for Digital Champions at Maryhill Housing Association. Whilst the staff who were in attendance had a variety of roles within the organisation, they were predominantly frontline staff working directly with social housing tenants in one capacity or another. After a re-cap of the first session, the training for Read more…