The Connection Project exists because we’re at a really important moment of change across the UK economy. It’s 35 years since the internet came into our lives – but this feels like a pivotal moment as we tip from digital being ‘an option’ to increasingly becoming ‘the default’.

Over the past 6 months Nic Littlejohn has led work at The Connection Project to determine what an actionable needs-based citizen segmentation for digital participation could look like for the UK.

Written by Joanne Dewar of Project Nemo, this post explores the challenges adults with a learning disability face in managing everyday spending within today’s financial systems.

It’s Digital Unite’s 30th birthday year and the one thing I am being asked time and again is, “how do you feel about digital inclusion 30 years on?”

Digital participation isn’t something that any single sector can fix. Increasingly, the systems people rely on every day are interconnected, which means we need to look at the system as a whole.