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DiSTO UK

Country context

  • The UK is 14th on the world ranking list of human development (Source: UNDP) with a Gini of 32.4 (Source: World Bank).
  • 92% of the UK population has recently used the internet (Source: ONS)
  • Media studies and the computing curriculum are part of the educational provision in the UK (though not widely taken up – see Livingstone, 2018)
  • The UK government is very active in relation to policy making around digital inequalities. Key policies include the UK Digital Strategyand the Digital Skills and Inclusion Policy(Coordinated by DCMS but with cross-ministerial buy in).
  • There are several multi-stakeholder partnerships working on issues of digital inequalities such as the Digital Inclusion Working Group, the Digital Skills Partnership and the National Coherence Delivery Group (see: https://digitalinclusion.blog.gov.uk/)
  • There is a plethora of third sector and commercial organisations thinking about measurement and interventions to understand and tackle digital inequalities (see projects in the UK for some organisations partnered with DiSTO UK)

Projects in the UK

DiSTO UK projects can be split into three intersecting parts: inequalities in the UK, research of young people and mapping inequalities (heatmaps)

Inequalities in the UK

Research of young people

Heatmaps