1. Supporting Families in a Digital Age Helen Milner, @helenmilner 12 th November 2014 Tinder Foundation makes these good things happen:

2. Family

7. In 2013-14 food banks fed 913,138 people nationwide. Of those helped, 330,205 were children

9. 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)

10. Exclusion Digital Financial Social Poverty of Aspiration & Opportunity

11. Goal is to create independent and confident internet users Not about broadband infrastructure Not about one-off usage

12. 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

13. Local + Digital + Scale Free Optimised for mobile learning

15. Free online courses for digital inclusion, financial inclusion and employability - www.learnmyway.com Optimised for mobile learning

16. > 1 million people, 5000 hyperlocal partners, 25000 volunteers

18. Digital Inclusion Learning Social Challenges Our strategic approach

19. 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 (www.learnmyway.com) into your Parents’ Sitewww.learnmyway.com

20. 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 (www.englishmyway.co.uk)www.englishmyway.co.uk

21. 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

22. Digital Inclusion Learning Social Challenges Seeking the ‘sweet spot’

23. “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”

24. March 1985

26. Thank You helen@tinderfoundation.org @helenmilner on twitter www.ukonlinecentres.com www.learnmyway.com www.communityhowto.com