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Helping Women from Low Income Backgrounds to Gain Digital Skills

Sinead Mac Manus | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Digital Skills, Women, Tech City, Digital Technology, Unemployment, Nominet Trust, Social Entrepreneurship, Silicon Roundabout, Women's Issues, UK Tech News
Sinead Mac Manus

When I first met Silvana Gambini, who is in her fifties and worked as a careers adviser for 12 years, she had never considered using the internet to earn an income. Like many unemployed women, she used the web to look for work and stay in contact with friends and family through email and Facebook.

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Becoming a Digital Nation: Young People Hold the Key to Britain's Skills Gap

Ann Pickering | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Apprenticeships, Young People, Digital Skills, Skills Gap, O2, Business, Young Talent, Young Entrepreneurs, UK Tech News
Ann Pickering

As a nation, we need to address our digital skills deficit by giving young people the opportunity to grow their confidence and capitalise on their digital skills and knowledge. Only then will we build a workforce fit for the future, and see young people, business and the British economy thrive.

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Cracking the Code of a Digitally Literate Generation

Geoff Mulgan | Posted 11.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Mozilla, UK Education, Nesta, Nominet Trust, Coding, Digital Skills, UK Students, Programming, Digital Literacy, Digital Makers, Web Development, Go on UK, UK-Tech-2013, UK Universities & Education News
Geoff Mulgan

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement of programming games, apps, or making digital devices.

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