A Shared Digital Champions Solution for Housing Digital... · • Helped over ½ million older...
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A Shared Digital Champions Solution for
Housing Emma Solomon OBE
Managing Director, Digital Unite
Our credentials
• One of the UK’s main providers of digital skills learning
established in 1996
• Helped over ½ million older people engage with digital
technologies through award-winning campaigns and
community learning initiatives
• Over 11 years, worked with hundreds of social housing
providers in various ways
• Delivered ‘Get Digital’ for DWP/ DCLG - largest
simultaneous delivery of digital skills learning in sheltered
housing (2010/11)
• Chair of DWP Age Action Alliance Digital Inclusion Group
Digital Champion model - the ultimate virtuous
circle
Residents not online
and disengaged
Residents inspired &
supported to get online
Residents empowered to help others get
online
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We believe…
… that helping people to help others and
themselves is the only viable, sustainable way
to achieve scale and longevity in digital inclusion
… that digital inclusion is predicated on
digital skills
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New Opportunity for Joint Working
Housing providers and Digital Unite leveraging previous investment and experience
Building digital skills capacity in housing through a
‘Digital Champions Network for Housing’
What would it look like? - A Moodle (online learning platform) similar to this but with your own branded, customised landing page
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What is the offer? • Your own landing page and company messages
• 50 enrolments for up to 6 courses per enrolment • Personalised Skype training session on data loading and
evaluation • Face to face training to engage and inspire staff and
managers • Managed Moodle virtual learning environment (daily) • Assistance for learners (daily) • Moderated online community of DCs (daily) • Certificates of achievement • Courses completed registered on home page in a leader
board • Membership of Strategy Group for ‘Digital Champions for
Housing’ to inform the ongoing work of the project • New courses developed over time • Profile raised as result of comms activity and DUs ongoing
work in the sector • Additional training and support services for management,
staff, residents and volunteers – as required
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Benefits of a shared solution
• Engages, empowers and involves residents in
delivering and improving digital and financial inclusion
• Provides a structured online platform from which to manage, track and measure progress centrally
• Offers personal and professional development opportunities and a sustainable community environment
• Helps to directly drive usage of the organisation’s own e-services
• The core theme of digital inclusion can be used as a tangible way to strengthen internal business relationships company-wide
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• Excellent value for money • Benefitting from previous investment and
development cost from both DU and ASG • National offer for wide range of staff, resident and
volunteers • Opportunities for joint working • Existing courses updated regularly • New courses developed in response to demand • Momentum for Digital Champions community which
is hard (impossible?) to generate on a small scale • Shared learning and an opportunity to share
successes • Other additional support available (POA) to support
the project • Affordable
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And yet more benefits of a shared solution!
Is this right for your organisation?
Do you need to support residents to get online? Are you looking at building skills and capacity in
your organisation and with your residents? Would you like your digital champions to be
supported by digital inclusion experts? Do you want to be able to record activity and
measure success? Do you want to benefit from our previous work,
investment and best practice? Do you want to be an important part of a big
project Digital Inclusion? Do you have a small amount of money to invest?
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Time scales and costs
Timeframe Year One
Activity Cost (Excl VAT)
June 2013 Sign up from 10 Housing providers
July 2013 Moodle developed with personalised landing pages. HPs invoiced
£4,900
August/ September 2013
Training for key staff member on data loading and evaluation Face To Face session for managers and staff team to explain how to get the most from the project
September 2013 Go Live launch with 50 registrations for Digital Champions On going support and learning on the Moodle. Media Launch.
£3,900
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Why do we need 10 Founding Partners?
• Generates momentum and scale from the
beginning
• Sufficient investment to develop the learning
platform
• Keeps the cost very low and delivers value
10 SHPs
Price per founder for setup (one-off fee) £4,900
Price for founder annually from go-live
£3,900
Price per month per DC annually from go-live £6.50
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What next?
If you want to be a Founding Partner
(and we need 10) then you must
• Let Emma or Kathy know before the 30th of June
• Be willing to be invoiced in July for the set up fee
and in September for the annual management fee
• Be willing to commit for 2 years
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Be part of it!