End Digital Poverty Day 2025
techUK is proud to mark End Digital Poverty Day 2025 with a collection of blogs about some of the things techUK, our members and our partners are doing to combat digital poverty and promote digital inclusion in the UK.
End Digital Poverty Day is organised by the Digital Poverty Alliance, a techUK partner dedicated to ending digital poverty and ensuring all have a share in the benefits of a digital society. It is their flagship day for raising awareness of digital poverty and efforts to combat it. You can find out more about the work they and their partners are doing on their website.
techUK has been playing its part in the fight against digital exclusion this year:
We have established our Digital Inclusion Working Group, where techUK members can guide our digital inclusion work, hear about opportunities to get involved and meet other members interested in the digital inclusion space.
techUK’s CEO Antony Walker has been appointed to the Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Committee and as a co-chair of the Industry and Partnership Subcommittee with the Good Things Foundation:
techUK has also responded to the Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan, showing how our members stand ready to do their part in closing the digital divide.
It’s not just us who have been busy though, our members and partners have all been hard at work.
Below, you can find blogs from techUK members and partners about what they’re doing to close the digital divide, as well as their opinions on how we can go further in closing the digital divide:
- Closing the digital divide. One device at a time by Shelley Langan-Newton, CEO of SQR
- Digital Inclusion: The bridge to an increased employment rate in the UK by Anthony Mace, Employability Director at Reed in Partnership
- From Consumers to Creators: Digital Inclusion as an Economic Growth Strategy by Sobanan Narenthiran, CEO of Breakthrough Social Enterprise
- Digital Literacy is Digital Infrastructure by Jenna Khanna, Director of Education and Partnerships at Common Sense Media UK
- Why access to AI privacy must be part of the Digital Inclusion Conversation by Tom Moule, Senior AI Specialist at Jisc
- Bridging the Digital Divide: Manchester’s Commitment to Digital Inclusion by Georgina McRae, Business Support Officer at Manchester City Council
- The Impact of Digital Poverty & Exclusion on Women in Tech by Tess Newton, Policy Team Assistant at techUK
If you want to get involved with our digital inclusion work, or to find out more about what we’re doing, then you can join our Digital Inclusion Working Group, or email [email protected]
Archie Breare
Archie Breare
Archie Breare joined techUK in September 2022 as the Telecoms Programme intern, and moved into the Policy and Public Affairs team in February 2023.
Before starting at techUK, Archie was a student at the University of Cambridge, completing an undergraduate degree in History and a master's degree in Modern British History.
In his spare time, he likes to read, discuss current affairs, and to try and persuade himself to cycle more.
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