Embedding & Sustaining Digital Champion support for digital skills
How can you best embed and sustain Digital Champion projects to support digital inclusion? This was the theme of our Community of Practice event organised by the One Digital partnership in Birmingham in November 2019.
We shared our experience from two years of the One Digital partnership by looking at the barriers, challenges and best practices we have developed to create sustainable digital inclusion projects. We invited four of our most successful projects to present in-depth case studies on how they have embedded digital skills support and achieved a sustainable future for their legacy of digital inclusion. We brought together a great mix of delegates from voluntary, public & private sectors and academia to discuss how we all need to work together to tackle digital skills.
We were also delighted to announce the publication of independent research by Sara Dunn Associates which includes detailed evaluation of the four diverse case study projects from our event. This research report highlights which factors contribute to successful Digital Champion projects, and in particular what contributes to the sustainable embedding of essential digital skills support into an organisation’s service delivery. This Case Study research is part of the independent evaluation of the One Digital collaboration between Age UK, Citizens Online, Clarion Futures, Digital Unite and the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations.
Case Study research report Embedding digital inclusion through Digital Champion approaches by Sara Dunn Associates
Event resources
Discussion points and learning from the Case Study Research – the embedded model presentation by Kate Gallant, One Digital
How standardised training and support is crucial for embedding a successful Digital Champion project presentation by Kathy Valdes, Digital Unite
Three pillar model of sustainability for digital inclusion projects presentation by Kate Gallant, One Digital
Delegate aims, understanding and learning – Mentimeter results
Workshops
Best practice in embedding digital inclusion projects
Sustaining digital inclusion projects
Case Studies
Citizens Online & Brighton & Hove Library Service case study presentation by David Scurr & Jake Smith
Age UK and Age UK South Lakeland case study presentation by Sarah Parkes & Hannah Kitching
Poplar Harca case study presentation by Ana Mae Contreras-Ramirez
– for background on Poplar Harca, you can read their 2018-2019 Annual Report We Do Things Differently
SCVO & Airdrie Citizens Advice Bureau case study presentation by Aaron Slater & Susie Paterson
Airdrie Citizens Advice Bureau’s wonderful animation about their digital transformation
Knowledge Hub
We have accumulated the key points from this event and developed new guides on our Knowledge Hub.
👉 Embedding essential digital skills support into an organisation
👉 Sustaining digital skills support
Many thanks to our four partner projects who contributed case study presentations at this event and especially for the time they and their stakeholders (staff, volunteers and beneficiaries) gave to researchers from Sara Dunn Associates for interviews and evaluations
