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.
Dr Kira Allmann Phd
Rheanne Bennie, Lindsay Stephens, Aesha Zafar & Maxine Paintain, DWP Digital
Michael McLaughlin, Digital lead, HACT
December 2019
Accessible content is important. There are around 14 million disabled people in the UK. This number doesn’t include temporary or undiagnosed disabilities. These people are on the internet, they have rights and they are not being served by many public and private institutions. So how […]
October 2019
In partnership with Good Things Foundation, we have been researching, developing and testing new ways to support the most excluded in society to access and use digital health services and tools as part of the Widening Digital Participation Programme. Our goal over the past couple of years was […]
September 2019
Travelling to work, meeting friends for a catch up or just doing some shopping are often taken for granted by people with no known disabilities. For the visually impaired, these seemingly simple things can be a serious challenge. But imagine a city equipped with technology […]
September 2019
There was a time when the only option was to let our fingers do the talking. However, advances in speech technology mean that for people with visual, mobility or cognitive impairments it’s just as easy and effective to access technology with your voice. Finding our […]
July 2019
Building a mobile app that is accessible for as many people as possible is at the very heart of what we are doing with the NHS App. The task we have been given is ambitious: to build a digital ‘front door’ to the NHS — […]
July 2019
Access is everything. But what is “access”? Does our understanding of the word, and its connotations, sometimes hinder us from addressing the real issues connected with the journey and arrival at a given destination? Oxford English Dictionary defines Access as: The means or opportunity to […]
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