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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

A graphic image of a female and a male cartoon character interacting with oversized technology. The female interacts with a large touchscreen device, displaying a social media website. The male is sat on a chair with headphones on and a laptop on his lap. There's also a large camera, smart speaker and photograph icon.

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

18 March 2021

An over the shoulder photograph of a young girl using laptop for homework while writing on a notepad.

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

An image of a finger pressing a futuristic looking button

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 5 – Digital Connectivity

15 January 2021

A photograph of two women in wheelchairs smiling for a picture while using tablets. There is a man in the background of the image who is sat on a chair and holding a tablet for one of the women.

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 4 – Digital Inclusion

07 January 2021

A photograph of two women and two men sat in a library at a desk using desktop computers.

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 3 – Data and Collaboration

05 January 2021

A close up of the hands of a person using a credit card to buy something online. Their right hand is on a computer mouse and their right hand is holding a bank card.

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 2 – Digital Economy

11 December 2020

Digital Strategy for Wales: Mission 1 – Digital Services

03 December 2020

A portrait of Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport

Digital Strategy for Wales – setting the context

01 December 2020

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

Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales

14 October 2020

A portrait of Helena Herklots, Older People's Commissioner for Wales.

Urgent and radical action is needed to increase digital inclusion in Wales

08 October 2020

A banner promoting the new e-learning course for those in health and social care. The graphic image is of a laptop with a lightbulb coming out of the screen. The heading reads 'Inspiring Digital use in Health and Social Care'. The text below reads 'We're launching a brand new e-learning course in partnership with Digital Unite specifically for those in a health and social care role'.

E-learning course to help health and social care key workers digitally upskill during Covid-19

14 August 2020

Picture of a elderly man holding a tablet

Care homes benefiting from digital devices roll-out

16 June 2020

A banner thanking digital volunteers during Covid-19. The text says 'Thank you to all unofficial and official digital volunteers' and '#volunteersweek2020'. The imagery features a laptop with a picture of two senior people looking at a digital device, a tablet with an image of a smart speaker and a mobile device with a picture of a senior woman.

The importance and impact of Digital Volunteering during Covid-19

01 June 2020

A portrait photograph of Laura Phillips of Digital Communities Wales

Adapting to a new normal during Covid-19

Promotional image featuring three posing super heroes with the text reading 'Could you become a Hwb hero?', '#HwbHero' and 'We Care' in both Welsh and English

Hwb Heroes Assemble!

15 April 2020

Senior man in a blue shirt looking down onto a tablet device that he's using

1000 extra digital devices will enable the rapid expansion of digital health services in Wales

13 April 2020