AI Implementor of the Year?

🏆 Place your votes for Helen Milner as she's been recognised for her outstanding achievements navigating Good Things Foundation to increase understanding how AI will affect people who are digitally excluded.

Vote now 👇

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Like most, the election results are on our radar📡

No matter the outcome, we're proud of our collaboration with Local & Combined Authorities to build digital inclusion infrastructure.

We look forward to strengthening ties with successful Mayors & Cllrs to #FixTheDigitalDivide .

Dive into the depths of the digital divide with Katie, our Head of Research & Insights.

Katie explores our Digital Nation findings confirming the divide has narrowed, but is getting deeper due to tech advances & digitisation of services.

Read the blog: goodthingsfoundation.org/what-we-do/new…

Yesterday, we briefed Parliamentarians on our Digital Nation: 8.5M lack basic digital skills. 2.5M can't afford mobile phone contracts🚨

MPs Alex Davies-Jones MP, Sir Stephen Timms, Wera Hobhouse MP 🔶 🇺🇦 & Jamie Stone MP were among those who joined to discover how they can #FixTheDigitalDivide .

📣 Good Things Foundation have launched their annual visualisation of the worrying scale of digital exclusion in the UK;
▪️8.5m lack basic digital skills
▪️3.7m families are below the minimum digital living standard

But together, we can #FixTheDigitalDivide
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Thanks Emma Lewell-Buck MP for joining us & driving change to #FixTheDigitalDivide .

We urge the merge of MP engagement and local Digital Inclusion Hubs, bringing together policymaking with lived experience. 🤝

Take a look at some impactful outcomes so far: bit.ly/47wXrwp

📣 We have a busy day of events tomorrow! Don't miss out on the Minimum Digital Living Standard webinar with key findings from the research about what is enough for households with children.

Book your place:
📍 Online
🗓️ Tuesday 30 April
🕙 10-11am
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We’re pleased to have donated 342 laptops to Good Things Foundation's National Device Bank.

Commenting on the donation, Nest’s CFO Richard Lockwood said: 'As a digital-first scheme, we know how important it is to close the digital divide. We’re proud to give our old tech a new purpose.”

AI is becoming increasingly prevalent in the way we use technology everyday.

Whether it's online shopping, entertainment, or browsing the internet, AI is usually being used in some way.

So we want to know: Do you feel like you have a good understanding of what AI is? 💭

Tomorrow we're raising our Digital Nation findings at Portcullis House, Westminster.

We'll reveal the amount of potential locked out by #DigitalExclusion & highlight the £13.7bn economic benefit if all had digital skills & access🔒💻. Here's the research: goodthingsfoundation.org/insights/build…

Digital Nation 2024 exposed 8.5m people in the UK lack basic digital skills.

We're engaging MPs to help raise our policy asks, including MP Margaret Greenwood MP who continues to be our advocate & call for Gov to invest in local #DigitalInclusion provision👏 bit.ly/3UAMw0m

We are so excited to be joined by Emma Revie of The Trussell Trust for our next episode of Digital Futures For Good

How can we work towards a just compassionate future?

What policies need to be in place to get us there?

🗓️ Book your place:
Wed 22 May 1-2pm

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The Minimum Digital Living Standard webinar on Tuesday will offer key findings from the research team and explore the necessary policy priorities:

📍 Online, book your place today!
🗓️ Tuesday 30 April
🕙 10-11am

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What's the state of our digital nation? The latest research shows it's a digital paradox.

There's a clear case for action. Gov, business, community orgs & each one of us need to work together to #FixTheDigitalDivide .

See all Digital Nation 2024 research: goodthingsfoundation.org/insights/build…

🤩 ICYMI: martha lane fox on what should make a Modern Britain

🌱 The greenest economy
📲 The most digital economy

Watch the full interview with Helen Milner for the latest episode of Digital Futures For Good and the expert views.

Watch in full:
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And since there’s been 10 years of Digital Nation, there had to be a Digital Nation cake 🎂

Digital inclusion is high on the agenda for this group of businesses. It’s time to make it one on yours - before the digital divide gets any deeper.

Together we’ll #FixTheDigitalDivide

“Digital is the golden thread.” 🧵

Jemma Waters, Head of Customer Inclusion at Lloyds Banking Group, explains why a digital nation benefits businesses.

It‘s the S in your ESG, it grows & builds customer relationships, and there’s a £13.7bn economic financial benefit.

This marks 10 years of Digital Nation! Our Group CEO Helen is kicking us off. 🚀

We have the evidence. We have the research. We have the transformational stories.

Now we need collective action to #FixTheDigitalDivide .