- The crucial facts and stats: about digital inclusion.
- Essential Digital Skills for Work: summary of the report on skills in the workplace (March 2023).
- Inclusion in digital health & care: from the Kings Fund (March 2023)
- The Digital Poverty Alliance Evidence Review: important review (July 2022), and our CEO Emma Weston's response; and their brilliantly ambitious UK National Delivery Plan (May 2023).
- Economic Impact of Digital Inclusion: from the GTF (July 2022), and a quick summary from Digital Inclusion Toolkit.
- Lloyds Consumer Digital Index 2022: the largest on-going annual study of the UK's digital and financial lives.
Digital inclusion means that everyone, regardless of background or abilities, has access to and can effectively use digital technologies like computers, the internet, and smartphones.
This means they have the skills, devices and data needed to participate in the digital world. The aim of digital inclusion is to prevent anyone from being left behind because they lack these resources, and to create a more equal and accessible society.
Digital inequality is complex and evolving. Here are some resources to guide you through it:
Table by Kat Dixon at the Data Poverty Lab on what you need the internet for. Downloadable version here.