News, thoughts & stories
The latest news, thoughts and stories from the experts on all things digital inclusion, technology for social good, community delivery and learning, and so much more!
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Piloting Digital Support with HM Courts and Tribunals Service
Director of Digital Social Inclusion, Adam Micklethwaite, reflects on Good Thing Foundation's project working with HMCTS to increase digital inclusion in courts and tribunals services.
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To internship or not to internship
Executive Intern Jenny Llewellyn discusses the pros and cons of internships, and what an internship looks like at Good Things Foundation.
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Partnership for a 100% digitally included UK
Chair of our Board of Trustees, Liz Williams MBE, highlights how COVID-19 has exposed the human impact of digital exclusion like never before. The personal stories behind DevicesDotNow hammer that home.
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Responding to the chancellor’s summer statement
Whilst 17.1 million of the nation's workforce lack digital skills for work, CEO Helen Milner calls for action to be taken now to fix the digital divide in light if Rishi Sunak’s summer economic statement.
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Powering up the recovery
Adam Micklethwaite blogs about the Power Up grantee partner's response to Covid-19 and what the future holds in store for the initiative.
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Powering through, a time to reflect
James Richardson blogs about what the 15 grantee partners have achieved in the first year of the Power Up inititiative.
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Volunteers’ Week 2020
Volunteer Manager, Hilary Nugent, talks about her volunteering experience, and how the nature of volunteering has changed this year due to Covid-19.
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Money, debt, digital: 5 new ways to lose out
Our Director of Design, Research and Comms, Emma Stone, unpicks how digital exclusion exacerbates poverty and financial exclusion, and why digital inclusion to enable financial stability is more crucial now than ever.
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Harnessing Connections: Online Centres Network and DevicesDotNow
Researcher Joseph Chambers discusses how we can use the connectivity of the online centres network to reach vulnerable and isolated individuals during Covid-19.
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Listening to our Online Centres Network
James Richardson, Research Manager at Good Things Foundation, explains how we're responding to the needs of the network during Covid-19.
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1.9 million are isolated by COVID-19 and are not online: we need to include them, now!
FutureDotNow is working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on a new campaign called DevicesDotNow to tackle digital exclusion.
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The NHS spends more than half its budget on people who can’t access the internet – here’s what I’m doing to change that
Our Group CEO, Helen Milner OBE, shines a light on how digital exclusion exacerbates health inequalities and highlights the urgent changes we need to make.