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Exploring Digital Poverty

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‘A lack of digital skills and access can have a huge negative impact on a person’s life, leading to poorer health outcomes and a lower life expectancy, increased loneliness and social isolation, less access to jobs and education.’ Good Things Foundation, 2022.

Three of the biggest factors contributing to digital poverty and enabling the digital divide are:

  • Financial poverty causing digital poverty (exacerbated by the current cost of living crisis)
  • Access, which can be the result of geography
  • Skills, including lack of education.

Join Deacon Eunice Attwood, Church on the Margins Officer and Deacon Kerry Scarlett, Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, as they explore the issues around digital poverty and how the church can respond positively.

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