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Free tech and digital skills training for individuals with a learning disability across North Wales

15 December 2021

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Personal blog: How DCW tech and training is helping one Project SEARCH intern

23 November 2021

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DIAW Response to a Welsh Government Consultation on a Minimum Digital Living Standard

25 October 2021

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Creating unequal financial opportunities: Wales’s data poverty problem

08 November 2021

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Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales Network

19 October 2021

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The Online Centres Network in Wales

18 October 2021

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From vinyl to digital and every music era in between...

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Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales Steering Group

09 August 2021

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Could you support an elderly family member, friend or neighbour to get online?

12 July 2021

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Getting online with a visual impairment

28 June 2021

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Creative thinking and positive action needed to ensure that everyone has Internet access

14 June 2021

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Celebrating digital volunteers for Volunteers’ Week – Connection and Collaboration

04 June 2021

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Digital Inclusion Exemplars in Wales

03 June 2021

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Digital Strategy for Wales published

23 March 2021

A portrait of Hamish Laing, Chair of the Digital Inclusion Alliance.

Moving from inclusion to resilience – an agenda for digital inclusion in Wales

22 March 2021

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Work still to be done for Wales to become a digitally-inclusive nation

18 March 2021

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Safer Internet day 2021: Why it’s more important than ever before

09 February 2021

A spider diagram describing Mission 6 of the Digital Strategy for Wales. The central box reads 'Mission 6 Digital Skills: Create a workforce that has the digital skills, capability and confidence to excel in the workplace and in everyday life'. There are eight boxes surrounding it reading: 'Work with our network of Regional Skills Partnerships and others to develop new insight into future trends in technology, jobs and skills', 'Operate a variety of skills support programmes with employers to address their needs and provide financial support for the development of specific digital skills', 'Support and promote apprenticeships to build workplace skills and grow the use of degree apprenticeships in subjects like Software Programming, Cybersecurity, and Data Analytics', 'Drive public sector skills through a range of activities including increasing knowledge-sharing capability and sharing best practice digital transformation initiatives across Wales', 'Work with the post-16 sector, delivering Digital 2030 to support digital learning in further education, work-based learning and adult learning', 'Deliver education, skills development opportunities and outreach programmes to ensure Wales has the skilled workforce and digital talent pool', 'Improve professional learning in digital for teachers, supporting them to apply digital competence in their lessons. Exploit the Hwb programme to provide digital services, inspiring teachers and learners to embed digital prac and developing their confidence, skills and knowledge'.

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 6 – Digital Skills

21 January 2021