SCVO have created Scotland's Digital Participation Charter is for organisations who share the ambition for Scotland to be a world leading digital nation by 2020. The charter establishes a framework for organisations in Scotland and signatories to the Charter commit to working together in a spirit of partnership to promote digital participation in Scotland.

Read the latest news and blogs from the SCVO Digital Participation programme.

This presentation was given in 2014 by then SCVO Director for Digital Participation, Chris Yiu, at the Scottish Youth Work Week Conference. It provides an overview of our rapidly changing digital world and what's going on in digital participation in Scotland.

This report, compiled by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, looks at how a strategic approach which makes the most of digital technologies in all sectors, while ensuring that no-one is left behind, can make our public sector more sustainable, our civil society more cohesive and can stimulate our economy.

The Scottish Government's national framework which underpins local action to help individuals and businesses improve levels of digital participation.

Created by the UK Government, the Digital Inclusion Strategy sets out ten actions that the Government, partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors will take to reduce digital exclusion and build a stronger, more competitive economy and a fairer society.

This report from Ofcom is an in-depth study of the findings from the Digital Day 2014 children’s consumer research. It focusses on the data from the children’s quantitative three day diary study, and includes some comparisons to the adults’ study.

This document was produced as part of the first phase of Digitally Agile. It focuses the review done as part of the first phase to identify how digitally agile the CLD sector was in 2012. The results of this audit were used to inform the further phases of the Digitally Agile programme.

We live in the digital age – but a fifth of the UK population do not have access to the internet. How can we help everyone to get online and enjoy the benefits that connectivity can offer? The Carnegie UK Trust’s 7 Digital Participation Tests and 6 Case Studies of successful local projects that are tackling digital exclusion in new and innovative ways.

Glasgow experiences some of the highest levels of digital exclusion in the UK. What are the key barriers citizens face to getting online? How do these vary by demographic group? What might be the most effective solutions for increasing digital participation in the city? And how can other towns, cities and communities from across the UK learn from the challenges and the solutions in Glasgow? 

In 2013 the Trust published the report Across the Divide, which examined digital exclusion in Glasgow. This new research, produced in partnership with Ipsos MORI, examines the same issues in Dumfries and Kirkcaldy – looking at the barriers to digital participation and how these can be best addressed.

#NotWithoutMe is a new initiative, launched by the Carnegie UK Trust in September 2015. Through it, the Trust is looking to work with three innovative projects that are addressing and testing solutions to digital inclusion challenges facing vulnerable young people aged 12-25.

Good Things Foundation is a charity which supports digitally and socially excluded people to improve their lives through digital. Their work focuses on digital inclusion, community learning, and tackling social challenges through digital solutions.

The Digital Nation infographic gives an overview of the state of the online - and offline - nation. Here all the latest facts and stats on how to close the gap are presented in one graphic - find out who, what, why and how we get online in 2015.

CALL is a Research and Development centre for Communication and Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, as well as a working Service unit. Both elements are necessary and important – they inform, enrich and support each other.

Ross McCulloch from Third Sector Lab highlights 11 reports on digital inclusion, from the likes of Citizens Online, the Carnegie Trust and the BBC.

Go ON Local is a new toolkit and community platform (replacing digitalskills.com) which aims to support not only digital champions, but organisations and groups to help people get the Basic Digital Skills they need.