Tag: Digital Poverty Alliance

Digital Poverty Alliance’s Tech4Teachers scheme demonstrates need for digital support for teachers

Stuart Mitchell

The DPA (Digital Poverty Alliance) says teachers need more support to minimise digital poverty in the profession, after it donated 1,750 laptops since the start of its Tech4Teachers scheme, according to its latest white paper launched recently. The white paper outlines the progress of its Tech4Teachers project, supported by Intel, as well as a donation from the Barclays COVID-19 Community Aid Package. The scheme supplied laptops to teachers in schools with high pupil premium numbers, as well as wraparound digital skills CPD (continual professional development) training for teachers. Underscored by…

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Digital Poverty Alliance partner with Disability Rights UK and Silver Voices to recognise the millions of vulnerable citizens who will suffer as all landlines become digital by December 2025

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has partnered with Disability Rights UK and Silver Voices to shed light on the 95 per cent of over-65s and vulnerable individuals that could suffer from the national landline copper line switch off. In opposition to the planned Switch Off, Silver Voices has been leading a national petition calling to review the timetable for phasing out traditional landlines, and push this back from next year to 2030. Through the partnership, the DPA and Disability Rights UK will join forces to support the petition and raise…

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DPA and Currys expand Tech4Families to provide devices for disadvantaged families across Northern Ireland & Lincolnshire Coast

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) have expanded their Tech4Families scheme to help drive digital inclusion by connecting disadvantaged families across Northern Ireland and Lincolnshire Coast with laptops and digital access. The scheme consists of microdonations from customers of Currys, allowing the DPA to purchase new laptops for children experiencing digital poverty. Parents are able to apply online or via a dedicated text line, and the successful families will receive a laptop and resource pack. The scheme was initially launched in September 2022, targeting five key areas in the UK including…

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The Digital Poverty Alliance, one year on… has grown to 570 community members, built a definitive evidence base, and distributed 1,650 devices to schools in need

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA), a charitable initiative representing a broad coalition of third, public and private sector partners working to end digital poverty by the year 2030, today celebrates one year since its launch. The anniversary was celebrated in-person at Brands Hatch in Kent, alongside its trustees, community board members, DPA Ambassadors and corporate partners. The event, kindly sponsored by We Are Digital, included speeches from communities supporting digital inclusion including Moira Thomas, Director of Group Sustainability and ESG at Currys plc, Sally Caughey, Head of Digital Inclusion at…

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The state of Digital Poverty in the UK unveiled via landmark Evidence Review at the House of Lords

Stuart Mitchell

The Digital Poverty Alliance, (The DPA) a charitable coalition of third, public and private sector partners working to end digital poverty, has recently launched a major Evidence Review which, for the first time, unveils the state of digital poverty in the UK and calls for more action from national bodies and local communities. The report, UK Evidence Review 2022 – Inclusion to Equity, which was launched at the House of Lords in June 2022, finds that digital poverty is a much wider issue  than just making sure people are ‘online’…

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