By Emma Weston
Before you ask, or use your digital skills to Google it, a trifecta is: 1. a form of betting in which the punter selects the first three place-winners in a race in the correct order. 2. Any achievement involving three successful outcomes.
ESG, CSR and social value all allow businesses to place winning bets on digital inclusion (DI) – singly and in a combined way. It’s almost too good to be true, for ‘a range of stakeholders’ by which I mean government, businesses, communities and MOST IMPORTANTLY the many millions of digitally excluded people in them. 16.8m at the last count.
Read on to understand and marvel, particularly if you are:
- Working in the ‘public digital’ space; if you’re working in policy including in Whitehall; if you’re a social value proponent and/or commissioner. This is a 101 on the tools already at your disposal and how to get the most out of them.
- A pubic or VCSE organisation looking for DI support/ partnership from the private sector, think about sorting your digital inclusion opportunities into these ‘buckets’ and make them easy for businesses to align to their specific commitments.
- A business looking to support digital inclusion, boggle at how you can achieve – and deliver - compound benefit simply by betting on all your DI horses and they all get placed!
- Public sector constructing tenders with social value requirements; read this article to understand where and how your suppliers could fulfil them through digital inclusion and skills in a compound way.