Insights
We act based on what we know and we always learn from what we do. We also think that sharing and collaborating is the best way to move things forward. Take a look at our research and insights and get in touch if you want to talk to us about what we do.
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Making It Click: Supporting people with low internet use
This evaluation of the Make It Click programme, funded by Google.org, collates our key findings about supporting limited users of the internet to improve their skills
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Getting us ready for change in the workplace
A year on from the launch of a programme to support people underemployed and unemployed due to low digital skills, our Researcher Joseph Chambers reflects on some of the emerging findings.
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New beginnings for Learn My Way
Good Things Foundation's Senior Digital Project Manager, Deborah Fern, tells us what is to come in the next generation of Learn My Way, our digital skills online learning platform.
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How to Scale Rural Enterprise
This how-to guide sets out how community organisations who are skilled at engaging and supporting rural businesses to use digital can scale this support as an extension of the services they already provide.
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Clicking On In Sunderland
A report on Peer Research Findings and Recommendations for Make It Click - a two-year project which aims to shift the dial on helping ‘limited users’ of the internet in the UK to gain the confidence and new skills they need to thrive online.
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Broadening digital skills for future work
Good Things Foundation and Accenture partnered together to deliver the Future Proof: Skills for Work project, which sought to engage and support individuals with limited digital skills to prosper in the 21st-century workplace.
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Shocks, knocks and skill building blocks
Report finds that all-round support, responsive to individual circumstances and needs, helps the low-skilled to acquire essential digital work skills and helps them build the digital confidence and resilience they need for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
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We need to get ready for a digital economy
Helen Milner OBE, Good Things Foundation Group CEO and Carol Lake, Head of International Philanthropy, J.P. Morgan explain why digital skills and access are essential to help us in a digital economy.
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Participating in a digital economy
This report draws on our findings and existing evidence and presents recommendations for how we can enable more people and businesses to participate fully in a digital economy.
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Improving digital skills for small and micro businesses
This report summarises research exploring challenges to equipping small businesses and sole traders with the skills to flourish in a digital economy, and recommendations on how to overcome these.
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Improving digital skills for employability
This report summarises research exploring challenges for support to improve employability through digital skills for people facing significant disadvantage.
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Future Digital Inclusion: Delivering basic digital skills for those in need
This report aims to understand the mechanisms behind FDI: the resources that different types of Online Centre have at their disposal, and which are most important for different types of learner.