One Digital Collective (One DC) is a regional initiative that has been created to bring together contributors and collaborators from business, academia and public sector agencies. If you are based in the Northeast and interested in upskilling your staff in coding, read on!
The challenge
The programme has been designed specifically to meet the needs of employers, and can be evolved over time. The programme aims to provide people in the North East UK with an understanding of the unique opportunities that can be unlocked by improving digital skills and filling open roles in the region. The benefits of filling the 67,000 open digital roles in the North East with members of the local population are improved living wages, standards of education and higher levels of digital literacy in the region. It is important to ensure that digital skills are prevalent in every region of the country if the UK is to go for growth.
Ruth Harrison, founder of One DC, identified the shortage of available talent in 2021 when several large technology companies launched in Newcastle simultaneously. The challenge of skills shortages was compounding salary inflation across the region as everyone was sourcing from t
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