About\u00a030 people from the public, private and third sectors along with some from academia and NGOs gathered at\u00a0last week’s\u00a0Digital Leaders Scotland\u00a0Salon which looked at how to\u00a0overcome the barriers to digital participation that face many groups in society and impede Scotland’s aspirations for a digital future.<\/p>\n
What struck me was the presence again of that\u00a0big elephant in the room<\/a>. \u00a0When I asked how many participants\u00a0were blocked from accessing the web at work\u00a0there were far too many nods and wry grins of resignation. One participant had even been blocked from accessing the booking website for the\u00a0event, which of course was for, err,\u00a0digital\u00a0leaders.<\/p>\n Why this should be such a problem really isn’t clear. As the DVLA points out:<\/p>\n This may seem obvious, but how can you pronounce yourself a digital organisation and then stop your staff from accessing YouTube or Twitter which we use to engage with our customers daily?\u00a0– DVLA Digital Services Blog<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Quite. The DVLA highlights the self evident truth\u00a0that to be a\u00a0digital organisation an\u00a0organisation needs to, well, think digitally and build the\u00a0capability of the\u00a0workforce to support and deliver digital\u00a0services. For\u00a0the DVLA this meant opening\u00a0up access to social media to all staff on their\u00a0work computers. This is how you go about about building skills, confidence and competence.<\/p>\n Opening\u00a0up web access, says the DVLA, \u00a0allows\u00a0staff to\u00a0find\u00a0answers the questions they want answers to \u2013 not just the ones\u00a0the employer thinks they might need answered.<\/p>\n What a welcome move away from the all too prevalent\u00a0command and control culture. What’s holding back\u00a0rest of the public sector?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About\u00a030 people from the public, private and third sectors along with some from academia and NGOs gathered at\u00a0last week’s\u00a0Digital Leaders Scotland\u00a0Salon which looked at how to\u00a0overcome the barriers to digital participation that face many groups in society and impede Scotland’s aspirations for a digital future. What struck me was the presence again of that\u00a0big elephant… Read More »Participation in the workplace: it does work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[6355],"tags":[6357,6358,83,6356,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}