What is Go On?

• Go ON UK is a cross-sector digital skills charity.• Go ON UK is a partnership organisation and has the

chief executives of nine major organisations around its boardroom table.

• Working with its partners, Go ON UK’s vision is to empower everyone in the UK to reach their digital potential.

• Cross party support with commitments from all sides to continue investments.

To make the UK the world’s most

digitally skilled nation

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To inspire and support people and organisations who want to

share their digital skills with others

Purpose:

The Divide is Widening

Access to public services that are increasingly moving online

Increased social exclusion as relationships go online

Young people without home internet may struggle with educational attainment

Pay higher prices for goods & services that are offline

Harder to find and get jobs

Basic Online Skills – people

The Digital Skills Charter

COLLEAGUES CUSTOMERS COMMUNITY

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Everyone in my organisation should have

Basic Online Skills

.

Everyone deserves online

services that meet their

needs.

People without the

Basic Online Skills

to become confident online

should not be left behind.We’ll share our experience and resources on

digitalskills.com to help everyone in the UK get connected.

Shared language – knowing what to say

Where are we now?

• 19% of people in the NWest are digitally excluded• West Lancashire has between 85 – 89% of internet

users vs a UK average of 87% • West Lancashire has between 10 – 14% of non-users

compared to a UK average of 12.6%.• Across Lancashire digital exclusion affects up to

120,000 individuals. • This equates approximately 10,000 digitally excluded

individuals in West Lancashire.

In West Lancs …

• DI Lead• DI Strategy in development• Networking• Community-i• DI events at libraries

What we learned

• Run events in a mix of libraries and community centres or health centres or local UK Online centres

• Promote through grassroots community organisations

• Provide info for people to take away • Orgs across Lancs are keen to link to digitally

excluded – Huge appetite for Go ON West Lancs

Joining up the dots

Community-i joining the dots

Community-i West Lancs

A possible West Lancs Partnership

Aims

• Empowering everyone in West Lancs to reach their digital potential.

• Share initiatives, expertise and work jointly on digital inclusion initiatives.

• Share best practice and deliver thought leadership on digital skills throughout West Lancashire.

• Promote digital inclusion initiatives across the borough.

Your input is welcome

Pamela Holstein, West Lancs BCPamela.holstein@westlancs.gov.uk

Gordon Hempton, West Lancs Community-igohempton@aol.com

www.digitalskills.comwww.go-on.co.uk