Supporting Families in a Digital Age Helen 12 th November 2014 Tinder Foundation makes these good things happen:
Family
In food banks fed 913,138 people nationwide. Of those helped, 330,205 were children
Can’t do all of the four basic skills: – Communicate – Find Things – Share – Keep Safe 68% of this 9.5m have never been online 32% are infrequent or narrow internet users 9.5m don’t have basic digital skills (BBC/Ipsos Mori, March. 2014)
Exclusion Digital Financial Social Poverty of Aspiration & Opportunity
Goal is to create independent and confident internet users Not about broadband infrastructure Not about one-off usage
Tinder Foundation We are a staff-owned mutual and social enterprise Vision: A better world for everyone through the use of digital technology Purpose: We make good things happen through digital technology
Local + Digital + Scale Free Optimised for mobile learning
Free online courses for digital inclusion, financial inclusion and employability - Optimised for mobile learning
> 1 million people, 5000 hyperlocal partners, volunteers
Digital Inclusion Learning Social Challenges Our strategic approach
Digital Inclusion Join the Mind the Gap campaign Seek out parents who don’t have the basic online skills Partner with local UK online centres and signpost Link or embed Learn My Way ( into your Parents’ Sitewww.learnmyway.com
Learning (Parents & Families) Employability, financial literacy, budgeting – Learn My Way Family Learning – Such as using Course Creator English as a Second Language – English My Way (
Social Challenges Unemployment: basic online skills, specialist network supporting people ‘into work’, simple online courses Specialist networks for disability – (as well as for older people, and social housing) Exclusion … digital, financial, social Poverty … including poverty of aspiration and opportunity Putting technology into the mix for the solution
Digital Inclusion Learning Social Challenges Seeking the ‘sweet spot’
“Now that day has arrived … the humble school micro provides a gateway to a world of knowledge so vast that it is breathtaking at its first acquaintance”
March 1985
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