When we launched the UK Digital Strategy in March, we said that we would establish a new Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) to bring greater coherence to provision of digital skills training at a national level, and to support local level …
The Lloyds Bank Consumer Digital Index is the largest measure of financial and digital capability of people in the UK, and now in its third year of publication. In this guest post, Nick Williams, MD of Consumer and Commercial Digital …
It’s Volunteers’ Week. This national event takes place 1-7 June every year. Claire Donaldson, Early Careers Policy and Engagement Strategy Lead for the Digital Skills and Inclusion team at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) explains why we should be celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.
Through its Delivery Group on Digital Enterprise, the Digital Skills Partnership (DSP) is working to increase digital capability among SMEs, in order to build thriving and inclusive local economies. The Partnership, convened by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport …
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Part of our work here in the Digital Skills and Inclusion team is to work closely with the Department for Education (DfE) on policies that are particularly relevant to digital skills. We want to strengthen our collaboration, so we’ll be …
As the 2018 Charity Digital Skills Report is launched, its co-author, Zoe Amar talks about the importance of digital skills in the non-profit sector. What are the first things that come into your head if I say digital? Chances are …
The Tech Partnership and Lloyds Banking Group have today launched a consultation on updating the Basic Digital Skills framework. Created in 2015 by Go ON UK, working with a wide range of partners from education, the public, private and third …
‘Ever wondered what people are doing on the internet all day?’ This tongue-in-cheek question, used to promote a Get Online Week event, touches on a serious point. Although 82% of the UK population go online every day, almost one in …
Hi! My name is Ntima and I recently completed my internship at the Civil Service in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. I applied to the Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP) earlier this year. This 6-9 week programme …
Craig Hurring is Director of Communications at The Tech Partnership. Here he tells us about one of their important products. As any Game of Thrones fan will tell you, there’s a reason its introductory title sequence is so popular – everyone …