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Mark Bennett

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 Belfast, UK
Joined June 2012
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📹 Our team from #GoONNI are on-hand at the @balmoralshow this week! They can help you: 💻Get connected 📱Use your device ✅Stay safe online Come and say hello! #balmoralshow2025
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To celebrate #CyberNIWeek25, our #GoONNI team will be at the Abbey Centre in Newtownabbey tomorrow, offering digital support and advice on how to get online! Please feel free to stop by and chat. 📍 Abbey Centre 🗓️ Tuesday, 4 March 🕙10am – 3pm
Go ON NI logo. Let's learn digital. www.nidirect.gov.uk/go-on-ni

ALT Go ON NI logo. Let's learn digital. www.nidirect.gov.uk/go-on-ni

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From speaking to your GP, to applying for jobs - daily tasks have become increasingly digitised. Yet around 1 in 4 people in the UK struggle to use online services. Here’s 5 ways our Digital Inclusion Action Plan ensures everyone has the skills to thrive in modern society 👇

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Digital inclusion will not solve health inequalities or guarantee pathways to work - but neither of these things will happen without digital inclusion. In our latest blog, @emma_stone2020 comments on the IPPR's health and prosperity report. Read it at goodthingsfoundation.org/dis….
Dark blue background. To the right is a photo of Dr. Emma Stone, our Director of Evidence and Engagement. Emma, who is smiling towards the camera, is wearing a teal top and has long hair. The photo is placed against a yellow coloured background. Three curved lines - one is teal, one is red, the other is orange. Good Things Foundation logo is at the bottom left. Text reads: "New blog: 'Dear IPPR, digital exclusion is not a footnote' By Dr. Emma Stone, Director of Evidence and Engagement."

ALT Dark blue background. To the right is a photo of Dr. Emma Stone, our Director of Evidence and Engagement. Emma, who is smiling towards the camera, is wearing a teal top and has long hair. The photo is placed against a yellow coloured background. Three curved lines - one is teal, one is red, the other is orange. Good Things Foundation logo is at the bottom left. Text reads: "New blog: 'Dear IPPR, digital exclusion is not a footnote' By Dr. Emma Stone, Director of Evidence and Engagement."

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Digital disengagement refers to motivational reasons for not being online or using digital devices. This may be an active choice or linked to reasons beyond someone's control. Our new POSTnote has more on digital disengagement and impacts on exclusion: post.parliament.uk/research-…

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Mark Bennett retweeted
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@nidirect5 Jul 2024
Do you need to improve your digital skills? Or know someone who needs help to get online? There are free sessions available from Go ON NI. Visit nidirect.gov.uk/go-on to find out more. @LibrariesNI @dptfinance
A woman and an older man in front of a laptop with the wording ‘Need help improving your online skills?’

ALT A woman and an older man in front of a laptop with the wording ‘Need help improving your online skills?’

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Minister @Paschald opening the @BPS_Ireland Delivering Digital & Innovation at Scale conference in @dublincastleOPW now #betterpublicservices
Minister Donohoe.

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We are researching some aspects of the nidirect website & want to hear your experiences. By taking our survey your voice can be heard & help improve the service. Your unique perspective matters. This is the link to the survey: consultations2.nidirect.gov.… Please share widely
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ALT Decorative picture of Parliament Buildings at Stormont with survey closing date which is 12th April 2024

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UKAuthority@UKAuthority5 Mar 2024
The GDS ambition for personalised, proactive services. Interview with Tom Read ukauthority.com/articles/the… @GDSTeam #govtech #publicsector
The GDS ambition for personalised, proactive services | UKAuthority

The GDS ambition for personalised, proactive services | UKAuthority

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The scene is set and the @NICyberSC team are ready for our inaugural Government Cyber Security Conference! Looking forward to engaging with stakeholders today and over the course of the week! #CyberNIWeek24
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🚨 Today at 12.15pm: BBC Two's Politics Live on Digital Exclusion! 🚨 Digital inclusion hub, Learn for Life will be joining Baronness @tinastowell from @LordsCommsCom to discuss the impact of digital exclusion and more. 🗓️ Don't miss it! bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bjf8p…

BBC Two - Politics Live

Engaging conversation about the political issues that matter to you.

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Jayne Brady, @HeadNICS, visited Ormeau Road Library yesterday to launch the @dptfinance Get Online Week 2023 📶 📷 Pictured with Jayne from Libraries NI are Paul Kelly, Senior Services Manager, Adrienne Adair, Director of Library Services, and Kim Aiken, Deputy Head of Service.
Photograph of four people in Ormeau Road Library celebrating Get Online Week 2023

ALT Photograph of four people in Ormeau Road Library celebrating Get Online Week 2023

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Mark Bennett from @dptfinance’s Go ON NI team encourages participation in #GetOnlineWeek activities across NI, aimed at helping people get online safely, improve skills and gain digital confidence. Find out more about our digital roadshows➡️ nidirect.gov.uk/articles/go-… @LibrariesNI
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@HeadNICS12 Oct 2023
Delighted to launch Get Online Week 2023 activities in NI.   From 16 – 22 October there are lots of events taking place providing free digital training sessions to help people get online safely, improve their skills, & gain digital confidence.   More info: executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/ne…
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Thanks to Scotland House for hosting the Digital Inclusion work sector meeting. Good discussions were had about the efforts going in to improving digital access as well as sharing ideas going forward 🛜 – at London, England
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We've teamed up with @AerLingus to celebrate the return of the non-stop route from Dublin to Miami ✈️🇺🇸 You could win return flights to Miami for you & a friend, and it's so easy to enter: FOLLOW & REPOST Winner announced Friday, Sep 1. Good Luck! 🤞 dublinairport.com/latest-new…
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🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 We’re teaming up with @F1® to give away 2 VIP tickets for the ETIHAD ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX, 2023! 🥳 What you need to do? ✅ Follow @lenovo_UKI & @F1 🔄Retweet this post 💬 Comment who won last year's Lenovo British GP? 🔗 T&C’s - bit.ly/3r7Lixa
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✈️ We've teamed up with @AerLingus to celebrate the new direct route to Cleveland, Ohio ✈️ You could win: · Return flights to Cleveland 🇺🇸 · 4 nights in a luxurious 4* hotel🏨 · Tickets to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame🎸 To enter: FOLLOW & RT Details: dublinairport.com/latest-new…
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📹 Our team from #GoONNI are on-hand at the @balmoralshow this week! They can help you: 💻Get connected 📱Use your device ✅Stay safe online Come and say hi!
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📚 Earlier this week, Jim O’Hagan of @LibrariesNI and Andrea Ellison of @leedslibraries told us about the important role of libraries in todays society, with insights into their work on #digitalinclusion. ⭐️ A great example of shared challenges & solutions across these islands.
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