The document discusses digital exclusion and its impact on vulnerable communities, highlighting the importance of technology as a means to improve quality of life and employability. It emphasizes the role of social movements and collaboration across various organizations to create inclusive solutions. The document underscores the need for a collective effort to ensure no one is left behind in the digital society.

1. Digital Sunderland
Helen Milner OBE, @helenmilner
Chief Executive, Tinder Foundation
8 December 2016

7. Social revolution
• Worklessness
• Loneliness
• Vulnerable
• Complex lives
• Poverty

8. Digital exclusion is
about people
not technology

9. Deep impact at scale
A social movement

10. Meet Bertram

11. …at scale

13. 3,571 for a year

14. 28,571 for
2 million people

15. 92%
Have
improved
their quality
of life
Reduced calls
and visits to
Gov; channel
shift
38%
Savings to Gov due to
channel shift of these
people
£37.4m
Have
progressed
onto jobs or
feel more
employable
62%

16. Deep impact:
A social and digital inclusion charity

17. Simple model for delivering
impact
• A big club with a shared vision
• Digital underpinning this

18. Local
+
digital

20. Digital is a foundation for
wider resilience
Not just about skills
support upfront, builds independent users
enable people to better look after themselves
self efficacy in a digital society
“teach a man to fish”

21. 21
Government
Non Government

23. #digihousing

24. No one organisation can do this alone
• Create a social movement
• Everyone can play a role
• Leave no-one behind

25. Together we can make
good things happen!

26. Thank you