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  • A man smiling using a computer

    08/06/2023

    The Digital Skills Pathway for Shared Prosperity

    With funding from the UK Government's Community Renewal Fund, we piloted our Digital Skills Pathway approach - addressing inequalities through partnership working and enabling local communities to thrive in the online world.

  • Circular electronics for social good: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

    16/05/2023 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Circular electronics for social good: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

    This new research highlights a significant opportunity to tackle e-waste and the digital divide.

  • Health and Wellbeing Alliance: Accessibility and Inclusion Guidance

    11/05/2023 · Health and wellbeing

    Health and Wellbeing Alliance: Accessibility and Inclusion Guidance

    Produced in partnership with the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, this document is designed to support you to communicate in a way that is accessible to as many people as possible.

  • Internet access: essential utility or human right?

    27/04/2023 · Data poverty and devices

    Internet access: essential utility or human right?

    Our society and economy are increasingly reliant on the internet. This report, written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Shade Nathaniel-Ayodele, argues that we need to reframe internet access as an essential utility and a human right.

  • Danger of Missing Out: Data poverty, care experienced young people, and creative opportunities

    17/04/2023 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Danger of Missing Out: Data poverty, care experienced young people, and creative opportunities

    Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Dr Becky Parry, this long read explores data poverty in relation to care experienced young people and creative opportunities.

  • How do we solve digital exclusion in a cost of living crisis? Our submission to House of Lords

    22/03/2023 · Digital inclusion in communities

    How do we solve digital exclusion in a cost of living crisis? Our submission to House of Lords

    How do we solve digital exclusion in a cost of living crisis? Good Things Foundation's submission to House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee inquiry.

  • House drawing final MDLS

    28/02/2023

    Towards a Minimum Digital Living Standard – Interim report launch

    The Minimum Digital Living Standards (MDLS) team has published interim reports on what households with children need to meet the Minimum Digital Living Standard

  • 07/12/2022 · Data poverty and devices

    Local communities and the internet ecosystem: Scaling solutions to data poverty in the UK

    Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Kat Dixon, this report invites us to question the internet’s role in society, the potential for future technologies, and the necessity of community design of the web.

  • Young people’s digital lives

    17/10/2022 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Young people’s digital lives

    Our Director of Evidence and Engagement, Dr Emma Stone, writes about Nominet's latest Digital Youth Index and what it tells us about young people's digital lives.

  • VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance logo

    12/10/2022 · Health and wellbeing

    Health inequalities and mitigating risks of digital exclusion

    A guide for policy makers, providers and commissioners from a voluntary and community sector perspective

  • A periodic table of internet elements

    07/10/2022 · Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    A periodic table of internet elements

    A free resource to show how internet access is elemental to daily living in the UK, produced by Kat Dixon

  • The economic impact of digital inclusion in the UK

    13/07/2022

    The economic impact of digital inclusion in the UK

    This report - commissioned from economists Cebr and supported by Capita - sets out the costs and benefits to investing in digital inclusion for all.