Digital Skills

We need more young people who have digital skills and are interested in a career in the digital sector. We want to build a local talent pool, a skilled workforce ready for digital roles, with improved career and pay prospects, prepared to take advantage of new employment opportunities and achieve future success.

Radically Digital Stockport > Digital Place > Digital Skills

Why are we doing this?

Key outcomes include:

  • Young people interested in a career in digital sector, building pool of local talent
  • Young people have digital skills, helping to grow and achieve future success
  • Skilled workforce ready for digital roles, with improved career prospect and pay
  • Increased digital literacy to take advantage of benefits of digital inclusion

    How might we do this?

    • Better careers education and information, advice and guidance about pathway to digital jobs
    • Promote digital careers in schools
    • Showcase digital jobs via local job searches
    • Attend digital skills festivals, promoting Stockport
    • Digital training programmes
    • Support neighbourhood groups promoting digital skills 

        Please email your comments and suggestions.

        What impact have we already made?

        The importance of opening up access to digital skills training

        by | 3rd May 2023 | Collaboration, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Jobs | 0 Comments

        Rachael Turner is a Director at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. Here she provides an update on their free beginners’ coding course for young people, the subject of MadLab’s earlier blog, and feedback from some of the learners...
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        Community Computers – two years of reusing technology to tackle digital exclusion

        by | 25th April 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport | 0 Comments

        During ALL DIGITAL Weeks we are spotlighting the work of some of our DigiKnow partners. In 2021 Community Computers, a Stockport charity, joined the DigiKnow Alliance to set up a device recycling scheme to refurbish donated devices for people on low incomes and repair...
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        We’re joining a digital inclusion campaign across Europe

        by | 17th April 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport | 0 Comments

        This year DigiKnow is supporting the pan-European ALL DIGITAL Weeks campaign, raising awareness of digital skills for inclusion, empowerment, and employment. The ALL DIGITAL Network was set up to support Europeans with insufficient digital skills. The...
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        The key findings from Stockport Homes digital inclusion survey

        by | 14th March 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport | 0 Comments

        Tanya King is Head of Customer Engagement and Inclusion at Stockport Homes Group, one of the core partners of the DigiKnow Alliance. In my previous blog, I described the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Digital Pilot which has brought together internet...
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        On International Women’s Day we’re talking about #DigitALL

        by | 8th March 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence, Jobs | 0 Comments

        This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Embrace Equity’, is being celebrated by The United Nations as ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. It aims to draw attention to the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social...
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        Contact us

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

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