Digital Inclusion

We need to build residents digital confidence and skills to improve resilience and opportunities. We are working with the cross-sector Digital Inclusion Alliance (DigiKnow). We aim to develop support capacity by increasing membership of this network and training more digital champions to help people. We must ensure our services are accessible to all.

Why are we doing this? 

Key outcomes include:

  • Build residents’ digital confidence/skills to improve resilience and opportunities
  • Increase Digital Inclusion Alliance network membership, building support capacity
  • More Digital Champions to help people
  • Services accessible to all

How might we do this?

  • Volunteering opportunities
  • Training to support community groups
  • Digital inclusion pathway to signpost residents to the relevant support
  • Voluntary/community sector support to develop digital skills/infrastructure
  • More devices to children for education
  • Map free public wi-fi across the borough
  • Encourage businesses to open wi-fi
  • Enable more affordable wi-fi packages

Please email your comments and suggestions.

What impact have we already made?

Where creativity meets coding to CTRL+ALT+DEL community problems and injustice

In this blog, DigiKnow partner MadLab, tell us more about a recent community hackathon which took place as part of their Make Stuff digital arts festival. Claire Wicher is Head of Education and Skills, MadLab; Perin Avari, their Diversity and Mental Health...

The diversity of freelance businesses in the digital era

The Stockport Creative Campus programme forms part of the broader Cultural Development Fund work going on in the borough. This is a wider double-ended strategy involving both capital development in Stockport town centre and a supporting revenue programme, aimed at...

Leaping across the digital divide in Stockport

Stockport DigiFest 2024 concluded with 'DigiKnow: Leaping Across the Digital Divide', a digital inclusion seminar for more than 100 stakeholders and DigiKnow network partners which fostered wider collaborations across the business, health, voluntary and community...

Welcome to Make Stuff!

DigiKnow partner MadLab is a grassroots innovation organisation who work with technology and people, combining an understanding of new and emerging technologies with the tools and methods of participatory design. Their Make Stuff project running throughout DigiFest is...

Get out your diaries– DigiFest is coming!

Stockport’s DigiKnow Alliance partners are getting together to celebrate digital for everyone! DigiFest is a festival of digital culture and innovation as part of Stockport's year as Town of Culture. We’ve organised activities to inspire and empower people of all ages...

Contact us

Please send your comments, suggestions and questions to digital@stockport.gov.uk.

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