Posts tagged Digital participation

Not to sound like a Flying Lizards tribute band, but I want money. I want a heap of riches to dive into like Scrooge McDuck… but I want them fairly apportioned to the hundreds of organisations and thousands of individuals that are supporting people across Scotland to cross the... Read more

Over the past year, delivering place-based digital inclusion workshops, one thing is clear, digital exclusion is not just about devices, Wi-Fi, or digital skills Read more

One of the problems with delivering digital inclusion work is that there’s so many ways to do it. First, who are you delivering it for? What are you delivering? When, how and where will you deliver it? Do you have the buy-in? Are you doing it right? But what if we stopped seeing... Read more

The Digital Participation Charter Fund was first launched 9 years ago in October 2014, but back then we called it the Challenge Fund. The Challenge Fund set out to support organisations that work closely with local communities to “digitising content, building digital networks or... Read more

According to the Bank of England, the prospect of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) introduces both opportunities and challenges. At SCVO one particularly opportunity and challenge identified is for individuals who have previously remained detached from the digital landscape... 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

Children and young people are increasingly growing up with a large percentage of their lives lived and experienced either online, or facilitated by online activities and social trends. The most recent OfCom report on children and media use provides a wealth of information about... Read more

Amazing and inspiring digital transformation work has been happening all over Scotland for years. Join us to be part of a sustainable movement to build a digitally confident and inclusive Scotland. Read more

An inevitable and often dreaded part of digital inclusion projects in healthcare is monitoring and evaluation. The first question is almost always, ‘Who is this evaluation for?’ There are usually three primary intended beneficiaries, the service users, organisational management... Read more