Save the Children’s Central West “Programming the Future” program launched a research project to celebrate International Digital Inclusion Week. The project will evaluate the impact of Programming the Future digital skills training on Australian children and youth. The program was…
An article released by Forbes in early October 2018, shared the story of Simbioza, a not-for-profit organization promoting digital literacy for seniors in Slovenia. According to the article, the project consists of placing “older people with no or low digital…
GSMA launched the Innovation Fund for Rural Connectivity to expand digital inclusion in Africa, leveraging new technology to address the gap in underserved and rural communities. The fund, which is backed by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) will…
In early October 2018, Microsoft launched the CoderDojo Champion Training Programme to provide 5,000 young people in Ireland with access to digital skills. The programme, developed in the midst of EU Code Week 2018, also provided 250 youth leaders with…
The city of Chicago in the United States will be one of the first five locations worldwide to pilot a new assessment tool to track the progress of local digital inclusion initiatives. While smart cities increasingly leverage ICT tools to…
Kaduna State Government in Nigeria and IBM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to train one million citizens in digital skills from 2018 to 2022. The training will focus on boosting digital and entrepreneurship skills to provide youth with better…
As digital literacy skills continue to grow in relevance as a requirement for youth to acquire jobs, multiple organizations have launched initiatives and created products to boost their skills from a young age. Some of the solutions include mandatory computing…
ProFuturo is a program created by Telefónica Foundation and Bancaria “La Caixa” Foundation to address the educational and digital divide among children from underserved regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. An article published by Emisoras Unidas presented the case…
On October 6, 2018, the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) held a Basic Digital Literacy Workshop for village consultative council members in Tutong District. The workshop is part of an initiative called ‘ICT Savviness Programme’, which…
UsableNet released the ADA Web Accessibility Lawsuit Report 2018 presenting a visual compilation of court cases in the United States calling on organizations to implement web accessibility services on their websites. The report is intended to illustrate the growing number…
