Slide presentation from the 2015 European adult learning conference. How Digital Participation and Inclusion is being addressed in Scotland.

1. FRASER REID
@digitalfraser

2. DigitalPARTICIPATION
SCOTLAND WORLD CLASS
2020

3. CONNECTIVITY

4. ECONOMY

5. SERVICES

6. PARTICIPATION

7. DIGITAL PARTICIATION
• Scotland’s ambition to be a world class digital nation demands that we achieve
world class levels of digital participation.
• Our digital inclusion ambitions have been framed in the context of first
matching, and then exceeding, the rates of inclusion achieved by the other
countries of our islands.
• Our longer term ambitions are framed in a more global context and that we
should be aiming to match the rates achieved by Countries that currently lead
the world in terms of digital inclusion.

9. DIGITAL PARTICIATION
• The latest Ofcom Communications Market Reports states that 71% of people in
Scotland are accessing the internet through fixed line broadband.
• However, the Scottish Household Survey for the same period (2014) indicates
that 82% of people in Scotland have access to the internet. Up from 79.8% in
2013.
• The evidence shows that a significant proportion of people are accessing the
internet through other means; smartphones are now the most popular device
for getting online in Scotland.

10. WHO CAN BENEFIT
• Those who can benefit the most from getting online…….
• Disconnected and hard to reach groups are widely recognised to be the
disabled, the elderly, the unemployed, those in low income groups, those with
poor educational attainment and people living in social housing.
• Living in an area of multiple deprivation is a significant barrier which results in
lower digital participation and exacerbates the social exclusion of people in
these areas.

11. TOGETHER
• Partnerships are essential if we are to identify the correct solutions and
approaches needed to tackle barriers to uptake across a variety of different
demographic groups.
• SG believes that training and support for digital inclusion is best delivered by
the people who enjoy the trust of those who find themselves excluded.
• This insight underpins out decision to work with those organisations that work
directly in the community with those that need it the most.

12. TOGETHER
• Partnership with the Scottish Council forVoluntary Organisations
• A dedicated team is funded by Scottish Government.The team has a number of
objectives;
o Administer a Challenge Fund
o Promote the Digital Participation Charter
o Work across all sectors

13. LET’S GET ON

15. Facebook.com/LetsGetOn

16. Wifi

17. @SLIC1991

18. SOCIAL HOUSING

19. Worked along with Local Social Housing
providers to enable a tower block in Glasgow
with 138 homes offered free Wi-Fi access and
hardware to get connected.

20. digitalscotland.org/changing-lives/

22. PASS IT ON

23. @PiOComputers

24. www.digitalscotland.org
www.letsgeton.scot