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  • Public sector pioneers: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

    28/11/2023 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Public sector pioneers: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

  • Circular electronics for social good: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

    16/05/2023 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Circular electronics for social good: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide

    This new research highlights a significant opportunity to tackle e-waste and the digital divide.

  • Internet access: essential utility or human right?

    27/04/2023 · Data poverty and devices

    Internet access: essential utility or human right?

    Our society and economy are increasingly reliant on the internet. This report, written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Shade Nathaniel-Ayodele, argues that we need to reframe internet access as an essential utility and a human right.

  • Danger of Missing Out: Data poverty, care experienced young people, and creative opportunities

    17/04/2023 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Danger of Missing Out: Data poverty, care experienced young people, and creative opportunities

    Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Dr Becky Parry, this long read explores data poverty in relation to care experienced young people and creative opportunities.

  • 07/12/2022 · Data poverty and devices

    Local communities and the internet ecosystem: Scaling solutions to data poverty in the UK

    Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Kat Dixon, this report invites us to question the internet’s role in society, the potential for future technologies, and the necessity of community design of the web.

  • Young people’s digital lives

    17/10/2022 · Accessibility and wider inequalities | Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Young people’s digital lives

    Our Director of Evidence and Engagement, Dr Emma Stone, writes about Nominet's latest Digital Youth Index and what it tells us about young people's digital lives.

  • A periodic table of internet elements

    07/10/2022 · Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    A periodic table of internet elements

    A free resource to show how internet access is elemental to daily living in the UK, produced by Kat Dixon

  • 24/06/2022 · Accessing online services | Data poverty and devices

    Developing a New Benchmark: A Minimum Digital Living Standard

    What is the basic 'basket' of digital goods, services and skills that different households need to live in a digital world? This briefing outlines the first stages of our research.

  • Chess pieces on a chess board

    25/04/2022 · Data poverty and devices

    CHESS: Co-defining what counts as a ‘good’ solution to data poverty

    Our Policy and Research Officer, Tom McGrath, presents our findings from the Data Poverty Lab about what makes a 'good' solution to data poverty.

  • Towards solving data poverty

    04/03/2022 · Data poverty and devices

    Towards solving data poverty

    In this long read, our Director of Evidence and Engagement, Dr. Emma Stone, sets out the thinking which has shaped our approach to the Data Poverty Lab.

  • DCMS Digital Lifeline Fund: Evaluation Report

    30/09/2021 · Data poverty and devices

    DCMS Digital Lifeline Fund: Evaluation Report

    This Evaluation Report shares insights from the Digital Lifeline Fund programme, which reached 5,500 digitally excluded people with learning disabilities in just a few months.

  • Everyone Connected – National Lottery Community Fund report

    15/06/2021 · Data poverty and devices

    Everyone Connected – National Lottery Community Fund report

    A report on the impact and findings of the Everyone Connected programme from July 2020 to January 2021, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

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