However, 15% of people lack foundation skills, and more than 1 in 4 lack essential digital skills.,Link to poverty and inequality The profile of people who do not have essential digital skills is unsurprisingly,Access to support to develop foundation and essential digital skills is least available where it’s needed,Many organisations have benefited from workplace Digital Champions programmes.,Initiatives like the National Digital Inclusion Network from Good Things Foundation are helpful for finding

Embedding digital inclusion support into your service can help.,Providing digital skills support should be informal and fun, rather than an IT skills lesson.,Digital Champion Build digital skills support into everyday interactions You can help people to build,This approach is best suited to an ‘embedded Digital Champion’.,See our section on Foundation Skills: Accessibility. 

These needs should guide your digital inclusion project.,Supporting someone to improve their digital skills will need you to explore their access to a device,It is important you check with everyone you support if they have foundation skills.,Motivation You will need to motivate people by keeping your digital inclusion support person-centred.,Once they learn that they’ll maybe want to learn other things.”John, Digital Champion, Fife Housing Group

Support organisations need to champion service design and accessibility best practice through guidance,Our digital champions provided person-centred support to help people to get the most out of the devices,Organisations are able to articulate what digital skills are needed, and support their teams to develop,Three things you can do now to make progress Find and book some free training in basic digital skills,Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation Scottish Funders Partnership Third Sector Lab The

services that support our members and the wider sector to do what they do so well.,As a champion for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, we wanted to do what we could to make the Gathering,webpage views 60 organisations received Cyber Readiness Check support calls Digital inclusion SCVO’s,digital inclusion team has continued its work to build capacity for partnership working in the digital,delivered as part of the Digital Lifelines Scotland programme 841 essential digital skills check-up

We’ve been at the heart of improving digital inclusion for the most vulnerable people across Scotland,How to do our bit in tackling the climate emergency, how to improve equality, diversity and inclusion,IT support and workspace Our highly-skilled IT team supported the SCVO team, clients based at home, in,skills.,During the pandemic SCVO linked mPower into Connecting Scotland to maximise the digital inclusion needed

It was a chance to showcase skills, try something new and also to have a good time and enjoy the experience,View the Gathering Extra now A greener Gathering Our approach to environmental matters underpins all,We're a champion for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and we wanted to do what we could to make,Gathering We wanted the Gathering 2023 to be accessible, inclusive and enjoyable for everyone.,A lively panel conversation at the Gathering where panellists discuss the Lankelly Chase foundation and

Our approach to environmental matters underpins those objectives.,We're a champion for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and we wanted to do what we could to make,Over 65 different organisations hosted 80+ sessions to shape thinking, showcase the sector and share skills,There was plenty to do during breaks.,inspirational video message that we shared with delegates, representatives from Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation

Regrettably, the consultation approach is not inclusive or far-reaching.,Voluntary organisations provide care, digital skills and devices, and research-based charities offer,Helping people become digitally included SCVO has been working on digital inclusion and capacity building,The Connecting Scotland programme has achieved great things, including training over 2,700 Digital Champions,Over the next year, further work is required to blend the device first approach with the existing skills

organisations across Scotland which have embedded Digital Champion approaches to reach the most excluded,Our approach to digital inclusion needs to be dynamic so that no one is left behind.,A Place-Based Approach We also acknowledge an appetite for a more ‘place-based’ approach to digital inclusion,to build capacity to provide digital skills support: “We would welcome support from other local organisations,This longer-term foundation has enabled it to be in a leading light in terms of digital inclusion in