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The Digital Edge - using technology to support young people

High unemployment. Social exclusion. Low political engagement. Fragmented communities. It’s not difficult to construct a long list of youth policy challenges. The challenges are not new, and many are shared by all generations, but against a background of economic turmoil, environmental degradation, and increasingly complex local and global communities, more >

Employment and the Internet

This document provides a baseline of data around employment and digital technology. In doing so it maps emerging employment patterns that may provide opportunities to rethink how we address current levels of unemployment and underemployment. more >

Older people and their use of the internet

This report aims to provoke and stimulate research activity in new directions, with the hope of maturing policy and activity, while underlining those established problem areas where more research remains a priority. more >

Re-addressing the challenges facing young people

This Insight Paper, written for Nominet Trust by Dr Tim Rudd, stimulates thinking and raises questions that may inspire new debates, approaches, tools and technologies to better address the multiple challenges, needs and issues facing young people, particularly those who are out of work or not in education or training. more >

How can digital technologies support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities?

We're undertaking an innovative crowd sourced research project to identify some of the core principles that really explain how using technology can support young people now and in the future. more >

Breaking out or breaking off?

A literature review, produced as a draft process document as part of the 'Lapsed Use of the Internet Amongst Young People' research project at Oxford Internet Institute. more >

Cloudlearn: a methodology for crowd-sourced research

A review of the methodology used as part of the Cloudlearn project, led by heppell.net and supported by Nominet Trust. more >

Our top tips on what charities' can do in the online space

Following on from the launch of our State of the Art review, Charities' use of the internet, we've put together a few tips on what Charities' should consider when thinking about their online strategy. more >

FOSI’s new report evaluates the global state of online safety in 2011

FOSI’s State of Online Safety Report is a ground breaking and significant new publication. It brings together, in one document, probably the first and most comprehensive report on the global state of online safety. more >

Charities' use of the internet

A new state of art review written by Dr Eleanor Burt and Professor John Taylor more >

Next pre-app web chat 19.06

Got an idea for a project?

If you would like to talk to us further about what we are looking for in an application, then why not join us at one of our regular pre-application web chats or events. Next chat is 19th June 2013 more >

Latest project news

‘Kickstarter with a conscience’: new crowd funding platform launches to boost London’s small businesses, creating new jobs.

18th June 2013
Today, Monday 17 June 2013, social enterprise Participle launch We Are The Million, a new crowd funding platform that boosts small businesses in South London by helping them raise much needed funds to grow and create new employment opportunities in their local community.  more >