dotSHF17 Conference: People Lightning Talk

These are Helen Milner's slides on the "People" domain from the dotSHF Conference, November 2017.

Helen Milner OBE is the Chief Executive of the Good Things Foundation, the UK's leading digital inclusion charity.

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Transcript

1. LIGHTNING TALKS PEOPLE Helen Milner OBE - Good Things Foundation
2. PEOPLE • People … that means everybody • Building the confidence, skills and motivation of the people in the city: leaving nobody behind • Growing the aspiration and skills of our young people (and others) to want better digital skills for work and to have digital careers • Bringing digital talent into the city to live here, to work here, to establish new businesses and new social enterprises here • Ensuring we use digital to help us to overcome social issues and challenges we face • It’s all about the people not the technology!
3. PEOPLE - Digital inclusion • 21% of people in Sheffield lack the five basic digital skills • 13.4% either never use the internet or have not used it recently • Digital exclusion exacerbates other inequalities What’s happening in Sheffield: - Council’s Digital Inclusion Strategy - Good Things Foundation and the Online Centres - Google Digital Garage and Google Digital Bus - NHS Digital & Widening Digital Participation (two neighbourhoods - Porter Valley and South Sheffield) & Sheffield Test Bed (training the medical practitioners) - Legup.Social (6 x a year, mentors + SMEs/Charities who want help)
4. PEOPLE - Welfare & social inclusion • Huge overlap between social and digital exclusion (90% of digitally excluded also socially excluded) • Live in a very unequal city • New changes to welfare bringing new digital challenges to some (eg Universal Credit) What’s happening in Sheffield: - English My Way (English for migrants: Learn for Life, Southey Development Forum, Pakistani Advice Centre, Zest for Work) - Archer Project (Cathedral, homeless people, digital skills, coding, Just Works) - Age Better in Sheffield (end loneliness and isolation in Sheffield) - Sheffugees (City of Sanctuary, hack for digital asylum journey into Sheffield) - Hundreds of local community organisations working on the ground delivering significant community impact; including Community Libraries and many others
5. PEOPLE - Education • How digital sits in our Education system • Children and young people, College, Universities, and Lifelong Learning What’s happening in Sheffield: - There are 24 initiatives happening across the city focusing on digital education - Make Learn Share – a peer-to-peer model of providing school children with opportunities to learn how to code and then teach younger children the same skills they have developed - DigiFest – An employer engagement activity for a celebration of Digital Making. In 2017 the festival connected 60 employers with 550 students - Google Digital Garage and Digital Bus
6. PEOPLE - Talent management • Talent management across a city require coordination and collaboration • Good data is needed on what digital skills are needed (both for work and for specialised digital jobs) and what digital skills already exist in the city • How we attract digital talent to the city and how we keep them here • Diversity is hugely important - especially, but not only, a need to bring more women in the city into digital roles
7. CHALLENGE: How do we harness the City’s social and digital knowhow to tackle social injustice?