Digital Inclusion Listening Living Labs Workshop 2: Ideation

Background

In our first Listening Circle on 16 July, we had 30+ participants from different sectors, coming together to discuss the various challenges to digital inclusion faced by low-income communities in Singapore. In particular, we identified three challenge statements that we'd now like to brainstorm ideas for and form work-groups to take collective action.

These 3 statements are:

🌐 How might we ensure that public rental flat residents can access quality Internet connectivity in a conducive environment?

💻 How might we support public rental flat residents to acquire digital skills and attitudes to enjoy a better quality of life?

💸 How might we support public rental flat residents to navigate online spaces safely and build their resilience against online harms?

Date: Saturday, 20th August 2022

Time: 12pm - 4pm

Venue: Temasek Shophouse, 28 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238832

The key objectives for this workshop are to:

1. Generate and prioritize ideas for action that members of the collective feel excited to work on together

2. Form multi-sector work-groups that will take action on these ideas

3. Create a simplified version of the Theory of Change document to outline the work-group's idea in terms of the key activities, outputs and outcomes they'd like to see.

This workshop is part of the Digital Inclusion Listening Living Labs (L3) initiative launched by A Good Space.

When we were all forced by the pandemic to go online to learn, work and stay connected, many were cut-off from such access due to the lack of Internet connectivity, devices or digital literacy, especially those from low-income communities.

In the last two years, there have been various efforts to help to bridge this 'digital divide' but these issues will persist even after the pandemic, how can we do more?

The L3 is a multi-year program where we will gather multi-sector stakeholders who care about digital inclusion (e.g. businesses, academics, non-profit organizations, persons with lived experience, etc) to listen to each other and ideate solutions to bridge the digital divide.

This L3 is currently stewarded by leaders representing different sectors within low-income communities, including:

• Mr Johann Annuar, Executive Director, Engineering Good
• Ms Ruth Tan, Executive Director, South Central Community FSC
• Ms Joyce Teo, Executive Director, Community Foundation Singapore
• Ms Elaine Loo, Director, Service Strategy & Innovation, NCSS
• Dr Natalie Pang, Senior Lecturer & Deputy Head of Department, NUS
• Dr Carol Soon, Senior Research Fellow, IPS

A Good Space is Singapore's first co-operative of changemakers, set up to convene diverse changemakers to work on social issues, together. We currently have 32 members representing 15 different social issues and communities who collectively share resources, ideas, and collaborate on projects.

We are united by our belief that together, we can do more for the issues we care about than we can do alone. To learn more about A Good Space, please visit: www.agoodspace.org. For enquiries, please reach out to us at livinglabs@agoodspace.org.

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