Schlagwort: digital divide
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Learning from our hybrid training programme for youth and community organisations
Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we aim to democratise access to digital skills and technologies. One of the ways we do this is via partnerships with youth and community organisations that deliver frontline services to young people experiencing educational disadvantage. In 2023 we delivered a hybrid training programme to 14 youth organisations…
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Bringing digital skills to disadvantaged children across India
Reading Time: 4 minutesIndia’s rapidly digitising economy needs people with IT and programming skills, as well as skills such as creativity, unstructured problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Unfortunately, too many children in India currently do not have access to digital technologies, or to opportunities to learn these technical skills. Roadblocks to accessing digital skills Before…
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Perspectives on supporting young people in low-income areas to access and engage with computing
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission is to make computing and digital making accessible to all. To support young people at risk of educational disadvantage because they don’t have access to computing devices outside of school, we’ve set up the Learn at Home campaign. But access is only one part of the story.…
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The digital divide: interactions between socioeconomic disadvantage and computing education
Reading Time: 6 minutesDigital technology is developing at pace, impacting us all. Most of us use screens and all kinds of computers much more than we did five years ago. The total number of apps downloaded globally each quarter has doubled since 2015, reflecting both increased smartphone penetration and the increasingly prominent role of apps…
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Closing the digital divide with Raspberry Pi computers
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the harsh lessons we learned last year was that far too many young people still don’t have a computer for learning at home. There has always been a digital divide; the pandemic has just put it centre-stage. The good news is that the cost of solving this problem is now…
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Distributing Raspberry Pi computers to help families access education
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe closure of schools has called attention to the digital divide, which sees poorer families struggling or unable to access education*. The coronavirus pandemic didn’t cause this divide, but it has highlighted it and its impact on many people in our society. As our Foundation CEO Philip outlined back in April, part…
