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National Get Online Week: what we’ve been doing
Blog posted by: Chad Bond and Jacob Bonwitt, 20 October 2016 — Events, GDS team.
This week, there has been a series of events running across the country to celebrate National Get Online Week. This is part of the government’s plans to make training in basic digital skills free for adults who need extra help.
GDS already helps government to create digital services so good that people prefer to use them, and the Service Standard supports this.
Helping people get online
With that in mind, a cross-departmental group from GDS, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Cabinet Office, including Civil Service Workplace Adjustments and Civil Service Learning, ran a set of lunchtime market stall sessions this week.
The first session was to help people get online and use the internet. Tinder Foundation demonstrated a free online learning resource called Learn My Way. Civil Service Workplace Adjustments helped them understand the tools available to support their teams. Civil Service Learning showcased its basic digital skills product, demonstrating how to use it while obtaining user feedback.
The second session was for those building digital services. It explained how to use the Digital Marketplace to find products and people to build the services. It was also an excellent opportunity to get user feedback to iterate and improve these services.
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