Haringey and its partners have been awarded a £138,106 from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund.
The project will tackle digital exclusion by helping more residents over 60 to get online confidently.
Haringey Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Services, Cllr Dana Carlin, said:
It’s excellent that older adults in our borough will be encouraged and empowered to develop their confidence and skills thanks to this co-designed, digital inclusion project.
We know that older people are one of the UK’s most digitally excluded groups owing to a broad range of factors, including accessibility, confidence, skills and trust.
This project will help our older Haringey residents address that complex mix of barriers by providing on new evidence on effective solutions and tools that work for them.
Trialling Behavioural Systems Mapping (BSM) in specific neighbourhoods in each of the five local authority regions, the main aims of the project are to co-design targeted strategies to improve digital inclusion for older people, generate transferable evidence and effective interventions and advance sustainable, context-specific digital inclusion.
It will also develop local capacity, provide practical blueprints and produce a national toolkit.
Led by DG Cities and the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the project group also includes Ealing Council, Haringey Council, Leicester City Council and North East Lincolnshire Council.
Further information on the Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund can be found on the Gov.Uk website.
