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RoundupDigital Inclusion News – November 2022

November 24, 2022 by Clare Carlile

A blueprint for community-based approaches to digital inclusion, plus a new report on the UK’s digital lives, and blog on digital poverty and domestic violence

Launching the 100% Digital Leeds community-based approach to digital inclusion

Leeds City Council has been creating a model for community-based digital inclusion to share with other local authorities, including stages and steps for creating your own version. The webinar is an opportunity to hear more about the work, how you could benefit from adopting the approach, and where to find the model once published.

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Consumer Digital Index 2022 – a report on the UK’s digital lives

While the headline is that 99% of people are now ‘online’, the report paints a complex picture overall. For example, 27% of people still have the lowest digital capability. The report from Lloyds bank highlights ‘sticking points’ to doing more online, from affordability to trust in digital systems and services.

Lloyds Bank

Leeds City Council publishes Digital Strategy for the city

Leeds has put digital inclusion at the forefront of its strategy, calling it a “key enabler” for delivering many of the priorities for the council and wider city. Based on extensive consultation, the strategy includes Leeds’ plans to improve digital inclusion for the years 2023 - 2025.

Leeds City Council

The importance of data access to those facing domestic abuse

Many of those facing or fleeing domestic abuse face data poverty or ‘tech abuse’. Yet, data access can be crucial for everything from accessing domestic abuse support services to connecting with those facing similar situations, as this insightful article from Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid discusses.

Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid

Looking behind the data from the Consumer Digital Index 2022

This blog from Liz Williams MBE FRSA, CEO of FutureDotNow, looks behind the headline data from the LLoyds Bank Consumer Digital Index. It unpicks figures on the digital skills that UK adults have when it comes to work, and explains why positive headlines may mask a more complicated reality.

FutureDotNow

UK government supports media literacy of those facing online abuse and misinformation

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has awarded more than £1 million to 17 UK organisations to pilot new ways of boosting media literacy skills for people at risk of experiencing online abuse and being deceived into believing false information.

Gov.uk

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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