Digital health has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people and make a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of preventative healthcare. With that in mind, housing providers and local authorities, as well as the NHS and social care providers, should consider how to meet the needs of an ageing population, and…
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Ready for STP?
In a recent survey, we asked, “Has coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns accelerated your digital plans?”, and over two-thirds of respondents said yes. This acceleration in digital is being driven by being able to offer more services online and in better-defined ways. The rise of the ‘digital tenancy’ is huge for the housing sector and…
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More than just a landlord…
It may come as a surprise to those who aren’t familiar with the social housing sector, but these organisations throughout the UK have worked around the clock to support their tenants during the pandemic. Many of these are in the front-line services, while a lot have lost jobs and are struggling because of the pandemic….
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Signal boost for digital skills
We Are Digital’s chief executive, Matt Adam, outlines the digital skills gap facing the UK’s employers and the digital marketing roles opening up across the job market for tenants as a result. Finding work and income-generating opportunities for tenants is an ongoing concern for housing providers. The pandemic has changed the workplace, possibly forever, and…
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Cloud-powered postal mailings
McKinsey Group estimates that the pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital transformation by seven years, and TechUK reported last year how it had seen two years’ digital transformation taking place within just a fortnight. Remote working, while enforced for many of us, has also been a strong catalyst for digital adoption. Cloud has been…
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Being ‘cloud smart’ to support tenants
“The cloud – isn’t that just servers in someone else’s data centre?” A sensible question and, in reality, it’s exactly that. Instead of locating your server infrastructure in your offices, you locate it in someone else’s. Instead of your team monitoring, managing, cooling, powering and upgrading the servers, you’re paying someone else to do so,…
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