Digital Inclusion is about ensuring those facing exclusion whether as a result of digital poverty or accessibility changes are not left behind or excluded. More digital services means more of us have to make sure we can take part, but these solutions must ensure that barriers are not included through lack of awareness. Digital inclusion ensures everyone has access to devices and connectivity and the skills, capabilities, and motivation to take part. It is a human right and when done well can benefit the bottom line. This topic will include content about how AI has the dual potential to both reduce and exacerbate the digital inclusion gap.
Jazz Rasool Director, AI Coaching Alliance (AICA)
Rheanne Bennie, Lindsay Stephens, Aesha Zafar & Maxine Paintain, DWP Digital
Michael McLaughlin, Digital lead, HACT
September 2020
We are social beings – the interaction, networks and social connections we create at work are important given we spend so much of our lives “at the office”. However, during the pandemic, working from home has meant those watercooler moments and face-to-face conversations completely halted. […]
August 2020
As a small business owner, you’ll always have far more to do than time to do it. The answer to building a successful business and a balanced life does not sit in wishing for more hours of the day, working harder, losing sleep or not […]
August 2020
We started the year of 2020 talking about Brexit and single-use plastic, we’d pretty much all planned our holidays out, and we had all fallen into a trap of thinking that we knew where we would be by the end of it. The public sector […]
August 2020
Many leaders felt they had rapidly and profoundly increased agility over the last few years. The pandemic accelerated the process, forcing many businesses to be more nimble and much more decentralised. This acceleration allowed decision-making and execution to be faster than even leaders thought possible. […]
August 2020
Design systems are becoming more commonplace as organisations strive to create usable, accessible digital service interfaces more efficiently. Here, Emily Lawes, UX Designer at Civica, explains what a design system is, and the value it brings to digital service development. Any organisation that develops digital […]
July 2020
Government is often criticised for being out of touch, slow, bureaucratic, and resistant to change. But it also has the potential to promote equity at scale. I’ve seen that the human-centred design process is a way for public servants to shift government towards fulfilling this potential. Human-centred design is […]
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