CLASP (Community Led Action & Support Project) to deliver a digital participation project.,As a result, that summer I started as Digital Participation Officer to set up and run the CLASP Digital,This blog is a reflection on some of what I have learnt over the past two years.,participation and essential digital skills to ensure the digital investment delivers a win-win.,For those who don’t already have the essential digital skills to build upon, the digital divide gets

are less likely to be digital media-literate.,are used, or that people who do engage digitally in small ways don't connect this to a feeling of digital,The February 2019 Good Things Foundation report on digital motivation also supports this interpretation,about the Scottish Digital Participation Charter, the Digital Champion training programme, and testing,your own skills using the Essential and Foundation digital skills checklists on our digital page.

skillsSupport staff: support staff and volunteers to help others learn essential digital skills and,embrace digital toolsSupport Scotland: support the nation by contributing resources and practical support,digital services, training and support to their tenants and wider community.,commitments to digital inclusion and whether signing the Charter has supported them to achieve these,In part two of this blog, we'll look at some of the examples of charter commitments and essential digital

In Part 1 of this blog, we looked at what insights we gained from a year of running a digital checkup,and offering support calls.,Secondly, people who complete the self-assessment can book a free support phone call to discuss their,That’s why we added the follow-up calls to provide more support, and to help us gain more insight.,In July, we made a big improvement for users who were asking ‘I want to book a support call now’.

Below is a blog by the team at North Ayrshire Women’s Aid, outlining their activities which have been,supported by the Digital Participation Charter Fund: 'The Universal Women project began in March 2018,advancing world, and saw an opportunity to encourage them to learn key digital skills in a supportive,kit to help us run a group where our women could be supported to improve their digital skills.,Without the support of the Charter Fund we may not have able to provide so much additional digital support

seventh round of the Digital Participation Charter Fund is now open and SCVO Digital looks forward to,supporting further development of essential digital skills across Scotland.,With 85 projects funded over the past 3 rounds, the Charter Fund has supported some excellent digital,We are passionate about supporting the development of essential digital skills across Scotland and take,We will also be bringing you weekly project guest blogs over the duration of the application window which

With a year to go until Windows 7 reaches the end of its supported life, John Fitzgerald outlines the,Microsoft’s blog explains why it’s not a good idea to run an unsupported version of Windows: An unsupported,Read more about SCVO's work on digital evolution.

work has recently taken me to Stirling to meet with the team, and to Glasgow to meet with Victim Support,which supports individuals to achieve economic outcomes and while this remains important, it doesn't,necessarily develop meaningful digital understanding nor support folk in engaging with wider social,We don’t just want to support individuals to fill out a form, nor to be able to find their way around,teams from Our Connected Neighbourhood and Alzheimer Scotland, I’d request that everyone reading this blog

Below is a blog by the team at Lairg and District Learning Centre, and their experience of the Digital,"We applied for the Charter Fund last year, keen not only to support our tutors with their own professional,development but, vitally, to support those who attend our courses with basic digital skills.,We wanted to support them to try things out in a supportive peer environment, to share their own learning,"In all, we’ve supported 113 students with basic digital skills so far – but this number will steadily

Since the Charter Fund opened in 2014 it has supported over 15,000 high-need learners to develop basic,The Welcoming is one of over 100 organisations who have benefitted from Charter Fund support.,skills to support their lives here.,who can support digital participation in unexpected ways.,*This blog originally featured on the Scottish Government's blog site on 5 April 2018.