Posts tagged Digital inclusion

Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, my heart sinks. That’s not because I don’t like what I do, or I don’t think it’s important, but because a common frustration those of us working in digital inclusion have shared is the lack of public understanding about what it... Read more

I’ve sometimes found working in digital inclusion to be frustrating. What we do, as a community, is often misunderstood. Digital exclusion can be a hidden inequality – and in our digital world few people can imagine what their lives would be like if they were disconnected. There... Read more

SCVO is a delivery partner for Digital Health and Care Scotland’s Digital Inclusion Programme and we’re now seeking a dynamic evaluation partner to join us.   Read more

Renfrewshire Council is a leader in establishing a place-based approach to digital inclusion in Scotland. Through the development of a cross-sector partnership for action, ‘Citizen Voice’, and supported by SCVO, agencies including the Council, housing associations, health... Read more

Creating greater digital inclusion is something that we can all work towards. Read more

CLASP - a local charity in North Ayrshire, runs a project for over 50s called HOPE in the Community, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Alongside our vision of increased health and wellbeing and reduced social isolation, HOPE aims to get more older people online so... Read more

Digital inclusion is so important. It changes lives. But the message from this sometimes-hidden community is clear: there is an opportunity to take a new, more ethical, and much more sustainable path. We just need to think carefully about what we do next.  Read more

We want to live in a Scotland where everyone has the opportunity to get online, and to do that we need to make sure that digital inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. Read more

The pandemic was the beginning, a mass awakening to the numbers of people who were not online.  The cost-of-living crisis will see more people digitally excluded. Read more

Fife Council is the largest employer in Fife and the third largest council in Scotland. It is a mammoth task to support almost 18,000 staff with their digital skills to ensure a digitally confident workforce. To help meet the challenge their Digital Skills and Learning (DS&L... Read more