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RoundupDigital Inclusion News – December 2022

December 16, 2022 by Clare Carlile

Free model for community based digital inclusion, plus digital economies network launched

Download this adaptable model for community-based digital inclusion

The 100% Digital Leeds model sets out stages and steps that can be followed by council officers who wish to adapt and apply the community-based digital inclusion approach for their own interventions. The model is available to download now, along with a launch webinar.

100% Digital Leeds

Plans released for switching support telecare to digital

The Department for Health and Social Care has released plans to switch telecare from analogue to digital by 2025. Telecare is most widely used by those who are older and/or disabled (for example to alert services to a fall) – two groups also more likely to be facing digital exclusion.

Gov.uk

New report on ‘Understanding Digital Poverty and Inequality in the UK’

A new report from the British Academy identifies six lessons to shape policy, which aim to effectively address digital poverty and inequality in the UK. For example, it identifies the value of local resources and intermediaries, and suggests policy must consider the role intersecting inequalities play.

The British Academy

‘Local communities and the internet ecosystem’ - Scaling solutions report

A new report from Data Poverty Lab and Good Things Foundation invites us to question the internet’s role in society, the potential for future technologies, and the necessity of community design. It features the work of communities that are keeping people online and connected.

Good Things

Network for research and knowledge sharing on inclusive digital economies

INCLUDE+ is sharing knowledge addressing the lived and structural inequalities of digital society. Its research will ask how social and digital environments can and should be built, shaped and sustained in ways that enable people to thrive. Run by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

INCLUDE+

Author: Clare CarlileOrganisation: Digital Inclusion Toolkit, I am a freelance researcher and journalist, focusing on human rights and the environment. I have written on tech and online access, from e-waste to digital inclusion.

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