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Rachel Martin has been working as a professional Digital Champion for Citizens Online since the July 2017, working 18 hours a week – as well as 14 hours a week for the Gwynedd Council Libraries service. She spends most of her time as a Digital Champion in a Library in Read more…
Earlier this month, I joined many people and organisations who champion digital inclusion at Lloyds Banking Group’s launch of their Consumer Digital Index 2018. The digital index tracks the number of people in the UK who have none, some or all of the digital skills they need to benefit from Read more…
Welcome to the first quarterly update for One Digital. One Digital is a digital skills partnership developed by Age UK, Citizens Online, Clarion Futures, Digital Unite and SCVO. At the heart of One Digital is the recruitment and training of Digital Champions to deliver essential digital skills support to individuals who Read more…
Sarah Cant, Programme Director for One Digital, comments, “The One Digital partnership welcomes the update of the Essential Digital Skills Framework. As technology evolves and more services are becoming ‘digital by default’, it is important that everyone knows what skills they need to take part in today’s digitally-driven society, and Read more…
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…
One Digital, a unique initiative that helps people to improve their digital skills, today launches its Community of Practice, a new learning alliance to share best practice approaches to digital inclusion. The Community of Practice will bring together the programme’s five diverse partner organisations to share and disseminate knowledge on Read more…